Bug 378884

Summary:	baloosearch doesn't respect --directory parameter
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-baloo	Reporter:	Saman <svps777+kde>
Component:	Engine	Assignee:	Pinak Ahuja <pinak.ahuja>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	glyphimor, nate, p92
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.33.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Saman 2017-04-17 17:57:41 UTC

When I try to limit the search with --directory, I'll see the result from other sibling directories. For example:

$ pwd
/home/foo/Music Video/Imagine Dragons
$ baloosearch -d . ""

I can see unexpected results such as:

/home/foo/Music Video/Infernal/ 

but I only see the unexpected results from sibling directories. It seems it limit the result to the parent directory (--directory /home/foo/Music Video).

Comment 1 glyphimor 2017-07-15 04:53:50 UTC

Just confirming this affects me as well. System is gentoo, package is kde-frameworks/baloo-5.34.0.

Some quick commands to test:

cd ~/tmp
mkdir kde-search-test
cd kde-search-test
mkdir dir1
mkdir dir2
touch dir1/rareword.txt
touch dir2/rareword.txt
cd ..
baloosearch filename:rareword
baloosearch filename:rareword --directory kde-search-test/dir1/

(Might have to run "balooctl index kde-search-test/", etc. for the files to get indexed, before running baloosearch.)

The baloosearch command simply ignores the --directory parameter.

This would perhaps not be too severe if it just affected the baloosearch command; unfortunately, it's also affecting programs tying into baloo. See, for example, bug 379665, 'search is not working in "from here"', filed under dolphin. There, we see basically the same behavior: dolphin returns search results from the entire system, ignoring the "from here" switch that's supposed to restrict results to the current directory.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2017-10-27 16:52:07 UTC

*** Bug 379665 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2017-10-28 02:54:09 UTC

Fixed by KF 5.38.0.

Comment 4 p92 2017-10-31 06:39:08 UTC

I confirm it works OK in kubuntu 1710