The Tracker-miners package contains a set of data extractors for Tracker.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker-miners/3.6/tracker-miners-3.6.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 36b1149a9b10ee3db3e3aa6d8a95c5dc
Download size: 7.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 85 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with parallelism=4; add as much as 1.0 SBU for tests, dependent on disk speed)
gst-plugins-base-1.22.10, Tracker-3.6.0, Exempi-2.6.5, and gexiv2-0.14.2
giflib-5.2.1, gst-plugins-good-1.22.10 (runtime), gst-libav-1.22.10 (runtime), ICU-74.2, libexif-0.6.24, libgrss-0.7.0, libgxps-0.3.2, libseccomp-2.5.5, Poppler-24.02.0, and UPower-1.90.2
asciidoc-10.2.0, CMake-3.28.3, DConf-0.40.0, FFmpeg-6.1.1, libgsf-1.14.52, NetworkManager-1.44.2, taglib-2.0, totem-pl-parser-3.26.6, libcue, libitpcdata, libosinfo, and gupnp
If you plan to run the tests, some timeouts are too short when
using spinning disks. There are two places where timeouts are
used: first, individual tests inside a group of tests have a
default timeout of 10s. This can be changed by setting the
environment variable TRACKER_TESTS_AWAIT_TIMEOUT
to the desired value
when running the tests (see below). Second, a global timeout for
a group of tests is fixed at configuration time. The default
value in the functional-tests
directory (other directories have only short lived tests) may be
increased with the following command (replace 200 with a value
suitable for your machine):
sed -i s/120/200
/ tests/functional-tests/meson.build
First, fix some crashes introduced by gstreamer-1.22.9:
sed -i '/ALLOW_RULE (shutdown);/a ALLOW_RULE (getsockopt);' src/libtracker-miners-common/tracker-seccomp.c
Install Tracker-miners by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ -Dman=false \ .. && ninja
To test the results, issue (adjust the individual test timeout to a value suitable for your machine, see the note above):
dbus-run-session env TRACKER_TESTS_AWAIT_TIMEOUT=20
ninja test &&
rm -rf ~/tracker-tests
The tests create files in the user directory (up to 24 MB), so they have to be removed afterwards.
Now, as the root
user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release
:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dman=false
: This switch
prevents the build process from generating man pages. Omit this
switch if you have asciidoc-10.2.0 installed and wish to
generate and install the man pages.
-Dseccomp=false
: This option disables
the seccomp system call filter. On some architectures, such as i686
and ARM, the functions that tracker-miners uses are not guarded
properly, and tracker-miners will get killed with a SIGSYS as a
result.
-Dminer_rss=false
: Use this option if
you have not installed the recommended dependency libgrss.
-Dbattery_detection=none
: Use this
option if you have not installed the recommended dependency upower.
Do not use this option if your system has a battery (laptop battery
or UPS), or tracker miners may waste the battery power and lifespan
when the A/C power is unavailable.