From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QvCof-0001ns-1w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:32:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B85E21C090; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:32:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0997721C090 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:32:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B6D51B4006 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:32:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.957 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.957 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.358, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Dh7K2SPCvDMe for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5661B4005 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QvCoK-00055r-3o for gentoo-devhelp@gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:31:52 +0200 Received: from athedsl-378610.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.30.240]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:31:52 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-378610.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:31:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-devhelp@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-devhelp] How to install MIME types? Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:32:13 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Development-related help X-BeenThere: gentoo-devhelp@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-devhelp@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-devhelp@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-378610.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110705 Thunderbird/5.0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 871ebcaaf5047c262f1965e868ce7b60 I have an XML file that specifies MIME types for an application. In my ebuild, I install it like this: insinto /usr/share/mime/packages doins someapp_mime_types.xml I then use these calls (from fdo-mime.eclass): fdo-mime_desktop_database_update fdo-mime_mime_database_update However, this results in: * Updating desktop mime database ... ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/applications/.mimeinfo.cache.ORB20V * Updating shared mime info database ... /usr/bin/update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on /usr/share/mime. Try rerunning me as root. What am I doing wrong? I *am* running "emerge" as root.