[Mageia-dev] tracker...

Fri Sep 9 01:55:11 CEST 2011

On 07.09.2011 17:50, Jani Välimaa wrote:
+> 2011/9/7 Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com>:
+>> On 09/07/2011 08:26 AM, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+>>>
+>>> Since this morning, a shiny piece of software I never opted to run not
+>>> even to install is eating 99% of my cpu.
+>>>
+>>> I don't find any way to disable it (excepted killall...), and I can't even
+>>> uninstall it:
+>>> tracker is needed by libtracker
+>>> libtracker is needed by libfolks
+>>> libfolks is needed by gnome-shell
+>>>
+>>> Whereas I perfectly understand why tracker (the binary) would requires
+>>> libtracker (the library), I really don't see why libtracker would make
+>>> tracker presence mandatory. After all, if the main program is missing, I
+>>> don't even need libtracker to be in working state, I just need its symbols
+>>> to be available to libfolks...
+>>
+>> This must be a recent packaging change.  When tracker first showed up, I
+>> changed my post-install auto-urpme of beagle to tracker, and it uninstalled
+>> just fine.
+>>
+> 
+> I'd say all this is caused by a packaging error as tracker pkg
+> contains some lib files:
+> 
+> /usr/lib64/tracker-0.12/libtracker-common.so
+> /usr/lib64/tracker-0.12/libtracker-common.so.0
+> /usr/lib64/tracker-0.12/libtracker-common.so.0.1102.0
+> /usr/lib64/tracker-0.12/libtracker-data.so
+> /usr/lib64/tracker-0.12/libtracker-data.so.0
+> /usr/lib64/tracker-0.12/libtracker-data.so.0.1102.0
+
+Well, it depends if these plugins are used by tracker or libtracker.
+
+It _looks_ like the above ones should be in libtracker-plugins or
+similar, which would be required by the libtracker0.12_0 package, and
+tracker shouldn't be required.
+
+But it all depends on what is using what, and what is required for what,
+which I didn't check.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+