Bug 50433 – mailto: Invalid mailcap entry test=test ...

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Anno v. Heimburg 2004-05-08 01:31:50 UTC]

Whenever I run mailto, I get the following error:

mailto: Ignoring invalid mailcap entry:         test=test "`echo %{charset} | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`" = iso-2022-jp

Interesting is the following:

$ qpkg -nc  -f /etc/mailcap
net-mail/mailbase
net-mail/pine
net-p2p/bittorrent

On purpose? Mistake?

Thanks,
Anno

[Comment 1 Sven Wegener 2004-05-08 08:54:01 UTC]

Created attachment 31002 [details, diff]
mailcap.diff

this patch for mailcap should fix it for you

and for the future, in my opinion /etc/mailcap should only be
installed by net-mail/mailbase and all apps that need /etc/mailcap
should depend on net-mail/mailbase

the mailcap with errors comes from net-mail/pine and is 5 years old
trigger is the line continuation that mailto doesn't support. the mailcap
from net-mail/mailbase works fine

[Comment 2 Cory Visi (RETIRED) 2004-06-28 23:52:53 UTC]

I think we need to move /etc/mailcap out of all the pine ebuilds and get any necessary entries added to /etc/mailcap as part of mailbase. What does everyone think of this?

Also, I think we should encourage the bittorrent maintainer to do the same...

[Comment 3 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) 2004-06-29 06:26:54 UTC]

Sounds good to me.

[Comment 4 Cory Visi (RETIRED) 2004-06-29 23:57:35 UTC]

Ok, I removed /etc/mailcap install from all ebuild versions in portage to fix.