Samba SpotLight support

Mark Felder feld at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 22 20:00:26 UTC 2016



On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 20:09, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
> 
> > On 22 Jan 2016, at 00:19, Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:
> > I've seen Samba 4.3 supports SpotLight (see https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Spotlight).
> 
> That seems like an odd combination, but I guess Apple have an SMB
> extension perhaps?
> I know there is netatalk support for Spotlight and it too uses GNOME
> tracker as its backend.
> http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/3.1/htmldocs/configuration.html#idm140014504387312
> 
> > Do we have all it needs in FreeBSD?
> > 
> > Why don't we have this options in Samba port options?
> > Is it just a matter of adding it manually?
> > 
> > Before I start trying the hard way, has someone been there yet?
> > Something exotic to expect?
> 
> I think when I looked at this I had to update and build some stuff that
> wasn't in ports and then I couldn't get it working so I gave up..
> 
> Looking again I think you would need to create a port for
> https://developer.gnome.org/libtracker-sparql/stable/
> 

We already have tracker as sysutils/tracker and the libraries are
included.


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