The Tracker-miners package contains a set of data extractors for Tracker.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker-miners/3.4/tracker-miners-3.4.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/tracker-miners/3.4/tracker-miners-3.4.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 12978674553320dc90c283dbd2605b1d
Download size: 6.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 31 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (with parallelism=4; add 1.0 SBU for tests, dependent on disk speed)
gst-plugins-base-1.22.0, Tracker-3.4.2, Exempi-2.6.3, and gexiv2-0.14.0
giflib-5.2.1, gst-plugins-base-1.22.0, gst-plugins-good-1.22.0 (runtime), gst-libav-1.22.0 (runtime), ICU-72.1, libexif-0.6.24, libgrss-0.7.0, libgxps-0.3.2, libseccomp-2.5.4, and Poppler-23.02.0
asciidoc-10.2.0, CMake-3.25.2, DConf-0.40.0, FFmpeg-5.1.2, libgsf-1.14.50, taglib-1.13, totem-pl-parser-3.26.6, UPower-1.90.0, libcue, libitpcdata, libosinfo, and gupnp
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/tracker-miners
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
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
Install Tracker-miners by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --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.