[Pkg-sugar-devel] Bug#783890: Bug#783890: Bug#783890: Solution for conflicting svg file

[James Cameron]

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/