mimehandler automatic Provides?

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Sat May 30 10:36:02 UTC 2009


On Mon, 25 May 2009, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote, at 05/25/2009 05:35 PM +9:00:
>> Are they related to
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutoFontsAndMimeInstaller
>> ?
>
> Yes.
>
>> audacity = 1.3.7-0.6.beta.fc11
>> Build Time	2009-03-02 16:40:30 GMT
>> 
>> mimehandler(application/ogg)
>> mimehandler(application/x-audacity-project)
>> mimehandler(audio/basic)
>> mimehandler(audio/x-aifc)
>> mimehandler(audio/x-aiff)
>> mimehandler(audio/x-aiffc)
>> mimehandler(audio/x-wav)
>> 
>> 
>> And in a later build they are not added anymore.
>> 
>> audacity = 1.3.7-0.7.beta.fc11
>> Build Time	2009-05-13 08:50:08 GMT 
>> Searching the Wiki for "mimehandler" yields no results.
>
> I guess this is related to
> - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494817
> - and "file" seems to have changed between these two days.

Rpm changed too between these two, and that's what makes the difference 
here: tweak for something else broke this particular case.

> Note that Panu said that the above bug was fixed in F-12
> rpm and actually 1.3.7-0.7.beta.fc12 has some mimetype Provides.

Yup, the fix needs pulling into F11 too along with some others, but the 
fixes aren't quite critical enough to warrant requesting a freeze break 
and I dont really want yet another zero-day update either... but anyway an 
update to F11 rpm is pending sooner than later.

 	- Panu -




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