Fedora 24: tracker Security Update
Summary
Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database,
tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer.
It consists of a common object database that allows entities to have an
almost infinite number of properties, metadata (both embedded/harvested as
well as user definable), a comprehensive database of keywords/tags and
links to other entities.
It provides additional features for file based objects including context
linking and audit trails for a file object.
It has the ability to index, store, harvest metadata. retrieve and search
all types of files and other first class objects
Update Information:
This update adds security sandboxing to tracker-extract.
Change Log
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-631737a49a 2016-12-29 04:39:04.476415 Name : tracker Product : Fedora 24 Version : 1.8.2 Release : 1.fc24 URL : Summary : Desktop-neutral search tool and indexer Description : Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object database, tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer. It consists of a common object database that allows entities to have an almost infinite number of properties, metadata (both embedded/harvested as well as user definable), a comprehensive database of keywords/tags and links to other entities. It provides additional features for file based objects including context linking and audit trails for a file object. It has the ability to index, store, harvest metadata. retrieve and search all types of files and other first class objects
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade tracker' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
