On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:45:41PM -0700, Mark Montague wrote: > > I also thought a little more about the mime-support issue below, and > realize that it's an extra-weird situation, in that, e.g. lynx > Recommends: mime-support, and certainly shouldn't Depends: > mime-support, but it would need the equivalent of Pre-Depends, e.g. > Pre-Recommends: mime-support or some such, but no such category seems > to exist. I'm not sure where I should bug report this... > > - -- a number of base packages complain that mime-support needs to be set > up; the ones I had problems with were lynx, less, and lpr: > > Setting up less (358-9) ... > Warning: could not read '/etc/mailcap' (update stopped) -- No such > file or directory > restore from backup or delete and re-install mime-support package
I filed a bug on tasksel for this, but that was the wrong place. It's actually a message from update-mime. The problem is that these packages are not supposed to depend on mime-support, and just call update-mime if it exists. apt-get does all the installations, then goes back and does all the postinst's. So the deal is, the update-mime script has been installed, but the mime-support postinst hasn't been run yet, which is where /etc/mailcap gets created. And apparently update-mime isn't smart enough to create a new /etc/mailcap when it's missing, and complains instead. I was going to try to figure out a patch to send in with a bug report, but if you beat me to it, so much the better... -- *----------------------------------------------------------------* | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | `. `'` | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `- | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
