"Extension Buddy" for Fedora 9?

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Tue Nov 13 10:16:04 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:48 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:40 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:35:20 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > > It would be cool if we could autoextract mime handling information
> > > from desktop files installed in /usr/share/applications and generate
> > > "mime(application/pdf)" style rpm provides.
> > 
> > YOu know, I like that idea. A lot.
> 
> This will figure out the provides needed:
> 
> for i in `grep -h MimeType /usr/share/applications/* | sed "s/^MimeType=//" | sed "s/;/\n/g" | sort -u`; do echo "mime($i)"; done
> 
> Someone just has to turn it into a proper rpm find-provides thing.
> 

Bah, i wrote a /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/find-provides.d/mimetypes.prov script
(attached) which i believe should work. However, it seems rpm is only
using its internal dependency checker, so this would need some actual
rpm code changes to work. 

To much work for me...
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