Re: broken shared-mime-info and MIME typing

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

On 04-12-08 10:51, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Looking at MIME binding, I found that it is now completely broken.
>
> We have mime.class, that provides install-time generating of the
> database.
>
> shared-mime-info attempts to provide compile-time generating of the
> database. As it does not contain freedesktop.org.xml, any package using
> mime.class calling update-mime-database will remove 99% of entries in
> the MIME database.
>
> Creating database during the build time is not possible yet and would
> require significant changes in update-mime-database (or writing a
> different tool):
> There is no way to create /usr/share/mime/magic, subclasses, mime.cache
> during the build time =>  it must be done during installation. Note that
> mime.cache is a binary file.
>
>
> Proposal:
>
> - Install freedesktop.org.xml again.
> - Change mime.class:
>    - Change scripts: First test, whether update-mime-database is
>      installed, if yes, then call it.

Done

>    - mime_prerm should be probably postrm =>  update database after
>      package removal

Done

regards,

Koen