[Sugar-devel] Bundlebuilder and mime-type related files

[James Cameron]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 08:49:41AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Martin Abente (2015-05-25 20:21:55)
> > So basically, there are 2 problems.
> >
> > 1. symlinks creation during ./setup.py --install (for installing the 
> > mimetypes.xml file .svg icons for mime types declared in 
> > activity.info)  and,
> > 2. the execution of update-mime-database (which generates the database 
> > files).
> 
> I agree with 1. but have not yet experienced 2. myself.
> 
> I would appreciate if you could provide steps to reproduce 2. on Debian, 
> so that I can help investigate.

I've a system tracking Debian Stretch on which 2 can be reproduced,
using the Memorize-35 activity:

a.  git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/sugar-memorize-activity.git

b.  edit /usr/bin/update-mime-database to show evidence of activation,
and print arguments, by adding a line:

    echo "$0 $*"

c.  ./setup.py install

In this context, outside of dpkg-buildpackage, the argument to
update-mime-database is /root/.local/share/mime, and is set in
activitybundle.py in python-sugar3 package.

Hope that helps.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/