[PATCH v2] Add OS X Spotlight support

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Aug 21 21:42:22 MDT 2014


On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 03:39:57PM +0200, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> Hi
> 
> here's the updated patchset.
> 
> git: <https://github.com/slowfranklin/samba>
> 
> Instructions:
> 
> - install tracker and libtracker-sparql-dev (or whatever it's called
>   on your system)
> 
> - use a script like the following for starting Samba and a "private"
>   dbus instance: [1]
> 
> - install a dbus-session.conf file in the location referenced in the
>   start script and adust path in listen directive: [2]
>                                                                                                                                                 
> - configure samba with --enable-spotlight
> 
> - smb.conf [3]:
> 
> [global]
>         rpc_server:mdssvc = embedded
> 
> or
>         rpc_daemon:mdssd = fork
>         rpc_server:mdssvc = external
> 
> [share]
>         spotlight = yes
> 
> For testing with Tracker commandline utils, you have to run a root
> shell and source these shell commands [4]:
> 
> INSTALLDIR=/some/dir
> TRACKER_DIR="$INSTALLDIR/var/tracker"
> export HOME="$TRACKER_DIR"
> export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=$INSTALLDIR/var/run/spotlight.ipc"
> 
> I'll wrap this up in a wiki page.

Not ignoring this, it's high on my list of
thirdparty patches to examine, once I've gotten
Volker's performance fixes in place !

Cheers,

	Jeremy.


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