> 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.
Good catch! For now, I'll just omit the warning since the situation can happen during normal operations. I suppose the best option would be to check the package status of the mime-support package if that condition occurs, but that is likely to be slow and may not work since dpkg is actively running when this event happens. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? See what you can do to fight it at: http://www.cauce.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]