[bug#63424] GNOME tracker does not work with tracker-miners

[bug#63424] GNOME tracker does not work with tracker-miners

[Sughosha via Guix-patches via]

GNOME "tracker" is built with "libexecdir" in its own prefix in the store and "tracker-miners" in its own. The problem is that "tracker" does not have access to the executable files in the "libexecdir" of "tracker-miners", so commands like "tracker3 extract file.flac" does not work. Due to this problem GNOME Music cannot list FLAC files (I don't know how it listed my MP3 file). As per this issue <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-music/-/issues/522>, "tracker3 extract" should work for GNOME Music to show FLAC files.

[bug#63424] GNOME tracker does not work with tracker-miners

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Hi Sughosha,

Am Mittwoch, dem 10.05.2023 um 17:33 +0000 schrieb Sughosha:
> GNOME "tracker" is built with "libexecdir" in its own prefix in the
> store and "tracker-miners" in its own. The problem is that "tracker"
> does not have access to the executable files in the "libexecdir" of
> "tracker-miners", so commands like "tracker3 extract file.flac" does
> not work. Due to this problem GNOME Music cannot list FLAC files (I
> don't know how it listed my MP3 file). As per this issue
> <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-music/-/issues/522>, "tracker3
> extract" should work for GNOME Music to show FLAC files.
The problem here is that the tracker CLI searches these commands in a
hardcoded directory.  Instead of doing that, it should be using a
search path for libexec/tracker3.

Cheers

[bug#63424] GNOME tracker does not work with tracker-miners

[Sughosha via Guix-patches via]

Hi Liliana,

I found out that tracker also looks for "TRACKER_CLI_SUBCOMMANDS_DIR".
I tested it and it worked!


* gnu/packages/gnome.scm (tracker-miners)[native-search-paths]: Add
search path for "TRACKER_CLI_SUBCOMMANDS_DIR".
---
 gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
index 22588ff..d50010b 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
@@ -9607,6 +9607,12 @@ (define-public tracker-miners
            tracker
            upower
            zlib))
+    (native-search-paths
+     (list (search-path-specification
+            (variable "TRACKER_CLI_SUBCOMMANDS_DIR")
+            (separator #f) ;single entry
+            (files `(,(string-append "libexec/tracker"
+                                     (version-major version)))))))
     (synopsis "Metadata database, indexer and search tool")
     (home-page "https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker")
     (description
--
libgit2 1.5.1

[bug#63424] GNOME tracker does not work with tracker-miners

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Freitag, dem 16.06.2023 um 20:22 +0000 schrieb Sughosha:
> Hi Liliana,
> 
> I found out that tracker also looks for
> "TRACKER_CLI_SUBCOMMANDS_DIR".
> I tested it and it worked!
Cool, I've applied some stylistic changes and prepared a format-abiding
commit message, but otherwise LGTM.  The actual push will have to wait
a week, though :)

Cheers

[bug#63424] GNOME tracker does not work with tracker-miners

[Sughosha via Guix-patches via]

Even though tracker is able to find tracker-miners executables, GNOME Music is not showing any of my music file in the ~/Music folder. It may have another problem.

bug#63424: GNOME tracker does not work with tracker-miners

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Freitag, dem 23.06.2023 um 17:16 +0000 schrieb Sughosha:
> Even though tracker is able to find tracker-miners executables, GNOME
> Music is not showing any of my music file in the ~/Music folder. It
> may have another problem.
I pushed the current patch regardless.  Hope that helps.

Cheers