Dear all,
I am working on my 'Atomes' package (non official yet) and I kindly ask for your advise.

I have a question regarding my spec file:

https://github.com/Slookeur/Atomes-GNU/blob/main/atomes.spec

I recently figured out how to handle file associations and creating my custom MIME type.

To do that I created an 'atomes-mime.xml' file:

https://github.com/Slookeur/Atomes-GNU/blob/main/metadata/atomes-mime.xml

that I installed in the '/usr/share/mime/packages/' directory,
and after that I updated the MIME database using:

update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

It works just as expected, but this should be obvious to many I guess.

However the first time I tried to build the RPM it failed, because this last command creates and/or modify a bunch of files in the '/usr/share/mime' and '/usr/share/applications' folders:

   /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
   /usr/share/mime/XMLnamespaces
   /usr/share/mime/aliases
   /usr/share/mime/application/x-apf.xml
   /usr/share/mime/application/x-awf.xml
   /usr/share/mime/generic-icons
   /usr/share/mime/globs
   /usr/share/mime/globs2
   /usr/share/mime/icons
   /usr/share/mime/magic
   /usr/share/mime/mime.cache
   /usr/share/mime/packages/atomes-mime.xml
   /usr/share/mime/subclasses
   /usr/share/mime/treemagic
   /usr/share/mime/types
   /usr/share/mime/version

So I add to correct the spec file to include these files, I did it like this:

%{_datadir}/mime
%{_datadir}/applications

So that all files that my build creates in these folders will be added properly to the RPM.

Now comes my question: some of these files seem to be configuration files, that the 'update-mime-database' simply updates, so I am not confident in saying that these should be installed by my RPM, it might just be better to have these files simply updated after the installation, but I do not know how.

I tried to remove the 'update-mime-database' from the 'Makefile.am' (the project uses GNU autotools) and put it in the '%check' section of the spec file but it does not work (same issue).

So far the RPM builds everywhere (local, Copr, Koji) but I am not sure that it is correct, what do you think ?

Thanks in advance for your advise.

Best regards.

Sébastien

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Dr. Sébastien Le Roux
Ingénieur de Recherche CNRS
Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg
Département des Matériaux Organiques
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F-67034 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France
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