| Summary: | www-servers/nginx: bundled mime.types file has poor coverage | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | kfm |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | djc, eras, gentoo, sam |
| Priority: | Normal | Keywords: | PullRequest |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: |
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762958 https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/27887 |
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
(In reply to Kerin Millar from comment #0) > To provide but one example, Arch Linux not only provides /etc/mime.types > from the upstream mailcap project, but also uses its bundled script to > generate an /etc/nginx/mime.types file that is suitable for inclusion by the > default /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. Aside from providing better coverage, it > allows for the list of media types to be kept in sync with IANA without > necessarily having to update nginx itself. I think that's the better approach as well. app-misc/mime-types[nginx] installs /etc/nginx/mime.types.nginx file. So two alternatives would be: - RDEPEND on app-misc-mime-types[nginx] and change the nginx config file to use /etc/nginx/mime.types.nginx as default - do not install /etc/nginx/mime.types file from nginx and RDEPEND on app-misc/mime-types[nginx] (and change the file location in mime-types ebuild to /etc/nginx/mime.types instead of /etc/nginx/mime.types.nginx and do not touch the default config file) The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=fd0e508ff6bd477682cf8c156a23248808744e6d commit fd0e508ff6bd477682cf8c156a23248808744e6d Author: Tomáš Mózes <hydrapolic@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2022-10-22 06:34:16 +0000 Commit: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-10-23 20:23:00 +0000 www-servers/nginx: various improvements - update nginx modules - change naxsi upstream as previous fails to build and is considered obsolete - use mime types from app-misc/mime-types by default Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/762964 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/836454 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/850571 Signed-off-by: Tomáš Mózes <hydrapolic@gmail.com> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/27887 Signed-off-by: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> www-servers/nginx/Manifest | 6 + www-servers/nginx/files/nginx.conf-r3 | 70 ++ www-servers/nginx/nginx-1.23.2-r1.ebuild | 1066 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 1142 insertions(+) |
The mime.types file bundled by nginx has poor media type coverage. # types() { awk '/\// { print $1 }' "$@" | sort -u; } # types /etc/nginx/mime.types | wc -l 80 Now let's look at the mime.types file provided by app-misc/mime-types. # types /etc/mime.types | wc -l 1918 That's quite a discrepancy. Of course, total numbers don't tell the whole story. Let's consider which media types appear in /etc/nginx/mime.types that do not appear in /etc/mime.types. # grep -vxFf <(types /etc/mime.types) <(types /etc/nginx/mime.types) application/x-cocoa application/x-java-archive-diff application/x-makeself application/x-perl application/x-pilot application/x-sea audio/x-m4a font/woff font/woff2 Of these 9, all appear to be non-standard except for font/woff and font/woff2, per RFC8081. However, this could be addressed by issuing a much-needed update to app-misc/mime-types itself. In Summary, I think that Gentoo could benefit enormously from adopting the approach of several other distributions, whereby the default nginx config references a set of media types that is standardised and subjected to routine maintenance, rather than the limited set provided by the nginx sources. To provide but one example, Arch Linux not only provides /etc/mime.types from the upstream mailcap project, but also uses its bundled script to generate an /etc/nginx/mime.types file that is suitable for inclusion by the default /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. Aside from providing better coverage, it allows for the list of media types to be kept in sync with IANA without necessarily having to update nginx itself. See also, bug 762958.