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tracker package

tracker-extract manpage should be improved

Bug #158665 reported by Joe_Bishop
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tracker (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The tracker-extract(1) manpage actually says:

SYNOPSYS
       tracker-extract file

That's actually wrong. It should say something like:
       tracker-extract /path/to/file mimetype

See original description
Tags: jammy
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)
Changed in tracker:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Jamie McCracken (jamiemcc-blueyonder) wrote :

you must use:

tracker-extract fullpath mimetype

EG

tracker-extract /home/jamie/Documents/mysql.pdf application/pdf

tracker will search author, title and keywords fields

If you find a pdf which has these properties and is not searched pls can you attach it here

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)
Changed in tracker:
importance: Wishlist → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
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Joe_Bishop (denis-cheremisov-gmail) wrote : Re: [Bug 158665] Re: tracker does not use PDF metadata

You should write about it in the manual page. There is nothing about
mime types in the man tracker-extract. And now it Tracker searches my
tagged document fine, as well as tracker-extract <full path> <mime type>
shows all the data. Thanks.

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 18:33 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> you must use:
>
> tracker-extract fullpath mimetype
>
> EG
>
> tracker-extract /home/jamie/Documents/mysql.pdf application/pdf
>
> tracker will search author, title and keywords fields
>
> If you find a pdf which has these properties and is not searched pls can
> you attach it here
>

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Jamie McCracken (jamiemcc-blueyonder) wrote : Re: tracker does not use PDF metadata

ok but bear in mind tracker-extract is for use by trackerd and for debugging only rather than for users

Changed in tracker:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)
description: updated
Changed in tracker:
importance: Medium → Low
status: Invalid → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

essentially unchanged for jammy: "man tracker3-extract "

tags: added: jammy
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