Bugzilla Bug 257221

Hi,
I've noticed that update-mime-database is not run for
/usr/kde/4.{1,2}/share/mime, which is the mime dir when kde is built with
kdeprefix use-flag set. The ebuild calls fdo-mime_mime_database_update from
fdo-mime.eclass, but this command hardcodes mime path to /usr/share/mime.

One symptom of this problem is that java applets do not work in konqueror until
you run update-mime-database /usr/kde/4.{1,2}/share/mime - see [1]

Regards, Matěj

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161825

How about symlink between /usr/kde/4.X/share/mime and /usr/share/mime.
That should work right?

(In reply to comment #1)
> How about symlink between /usr/kde/4.X/share/mime and /usr/share/mime.
> That should work right?
> 

I don't think so - as kde 4.1 and 4.2 install slightly different mime packages
here, potentially interfering with each other. So symlinking before
installation is not really a solution. I don't think the problem is that the
mimo info is in separate dir, as it's just some kde-specific stuff.

My proposed solution is to extend fdo-mime eclass to allow updating custom
directories.

In that case making it use XDG_DATA_DIRS as a reference would probably be a
good idea.

scarab I agree with Matěj... and if a directory like that exists on upstream
(I meant if upstream devs want to install mime in this dir) I suppose there is
a good reason... :)

idea for XDG_DATA_DIRS looks good, for example :

XDG_DATA_DIRS=${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-${ROOT}/usr/share/mime}

fdo-mime_mime_database_update() {
        if [ -x "/usr/bin/update-mime-database" ]
        then
                einfo "Updating shared mime info database ..."
                "/usr/bin/update-mime-database" "${XDG_DATA_DIRS}"
        fi
}

something like that...