[gentoo-dev] mimetype question

[gentoo-dev] mimetype question

[Per Wigren]

I'm making an ebuild for BitTorrent which is a P2P "download-helper".. If 
clicking a link in a browser that has "content-type: 
application/x-bittorrent", the download will be handled by BitTorrent 
instead, and the download will be distributed among everyone who is 
downloading the same file at the time, so it doesn't load the server...

The problem is that I have to make the ebuild add a line to /etc/mailcap..  Is 
there a standard way to do this?

// Wigren

Re: [gentoo-dev] mimetype question

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 15:22, Per Wigren wrote:
> I'm making an ebuild for BitTorrent which is a P2P "download-helper".. If 
> clicking a link in a browser that has "content-type: 
> application/x-bittorrent", the download will be handled by BitTorrent 
> instead, and the download will be distributed among everyone who is 
> downloading the same file at the time, so it doesn't load the server...
> 
> The problem is that I have to make the ebuild add a line to /etc/mailcap..  Is 
> there a standard way to do this?
> 

Havent really done this, but try something like:

src_install() {
	# if the user have a mailcap, and it do not
	# have the entry added, put his copy into ${D}/etc
	if [ -f ${ROOT}/etc/mailcap ]
	then
		insinto /etc
		# install the users real mailcap into ${D}
		doins ${ROOT}/etc/mailcap
	else
		touch ${D}/etc/mailcap
	fi

	# now add the entry if not already there
	if [ -z "$(grep x-bittorrent ${D}/etc/mailcap)" ]
	then
		# add the needed line
		echo "application/x-bittorrent...." >> \
			${D}/etc/mailcap
	fi
}


Greetings,

-- 

Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa