[Slackbuilds-users] Sbopkglint failure due wrong permission of a file installed by update-mime-database

[B. Watson]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Giancarlo Dessì wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> trying to solve an issue reported by Willy for birdfont package, sbopkglint returns this message:
> 
> Running test: 05-basic-sanity...
> --- usr/share/mime should not contain files with executable permission:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 362 set 17 17:02 usr/share/mime/application/birdfont.xml
> FAILED
> 
> I wasn't able to solve this: this file is not included in the package, but it is generated by update-mime-database in doint.sh It is possible to remove the executable permission
> with chmod 644 in doinst.sh but the failure report in sbopkglint remains.
> 
> I see also that all xml files installed in /usr/share/mime/application have executable permissions. Why sbopkglint returns this as error!?

Something wrong with your system. Somehow update-mime-database is
generating the file with +x permission. If *all* of them are +x, that
includes the ones from core Slackware (not SBo).

/usr/share/mime/application contains 2664 .xml files on my test system
(hundreds of SBo packages installed), and none of them are executable.

sbopkglint reports it as an error because it *is* an error... not sure
why your update-mime-database is creating +x files, but it shouldn't
be.