On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:27:57AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Martin Abente (2015-05-21 22:22:11) > > I am working on a related patch to prevent update-mime-database from > > running while we are building the packages [2] (a related problem). > > I don't follow: How can update-mime-database at package build time cause > any harm? Those databases should not be included in the package anyway > (Debian packaging infrastructure - and RPM infrastructure as well, I > hope - triggers update-mime-database call at package _install_ time).
Agreed. Yes, over in the other camp, update-mime-database is called at install time: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/etoys.git/tree/etoys.spec#n89 http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/scratch.git/tree/scratch.spec#n185 (and the etoys package for Sugar is built by the etoys source package; mentioned for understanding the reference only). But any accidental run of update-mime-database at package build time is ignored by the RPM process, because it explicitly identifies what is to be included. I guess this has hidden a fault in the upstream source, so we should get it fixed in the upstream source. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
