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

[Giancarlo Dessì]

Il 17/09/24 18:15, B. Watson ha scritto:
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> On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Giancarlo Dessì wrote:
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>>
>> 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.

Thanks Bob, so it is an issue in my system!

It's curious: this happens in a Slackware -current. An installation of 
Slackware 15 stable in another machine does not present this problem: 
all xml files in /usr/share/mime/application have 644 permission. Since 
I never modified configuration about update-mime-database I think that 
this could depend on Slackware -current

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