Xapian discuss - Jul 2011 - Anomaly in Xapian

HI all, 

I'm just testing out the capabilities of xapian and omega. 

Environment - Fedora15. 

Disk to be indexed - 2GB? - FAT16 filesystem. Named "New Volume" 

When I add a text file to the disk, by right-clicking in Fedora and choosing 

Create New - > Text File

The system creates the text file as expected. I added some content/words,
however, xapian-omega will not index it:

[root at Eagle1 /]# omindex --db /var/lib/omega/data/default --url /media/NEW\
VOLUME/? /media/NEW\ VOLUME/
Text File: Skipping - Unknown extension and unrecognised format

The file it's skipping over is a true text file: 

[root at Eagle1 NEW VOLUME]# file Text\ File
Text File: ASCII text

BUT

if I rename the file to

Text File.txt

This seems like a bug to me, since the indexer shouldn't care what the file
is called, it should simply index the content (so long as it fits in within the
guidelines of files it's designed to index).

Am I doing something wrong? 

Kind regards, 

Encee.

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:36:28PM -0700, The Dog's Bollix
wrote:
> The system creates the text file as expected. I added some
> content/words, however, xapian-omega will not index it:
> 
> [root at Eagle1 /]# omindex --db /var/lib/omega/data/default --url
/media/NEW\ VOLUME/? /media/NEW\ VOLUME/
> Text File: Skipping - Unknown extension and unrecognised format
> 
> The file it's skipping over is a true text file: 
> 
> [root at Eagle1 NEW VOLUME]# file Text\ File
> Text File: ASCII text
You don't seem to say what version you're using, but if it's Omega
1.2.4
or later, and you've compiled it with libmagic support, this ought to
work.

What does this report?

file --mime-type Text\ File

And if you're using Omega >= 1.2.4, check if it's built with libmagic
support:

ldd `which omindex`|grep libmagic

If not, you'll need to install the appropriate package (probably
libmagic-devel, but I'm not very familiar with Fedora) and rebuilt
Omega.

Cheers,
    Olly