Comments on: mime_magic errors with php4

By: Alex Owen

Alex Owen — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:21:44 +0000

chmod is not the solution
dpkg-divert is your friend…. read the man page.

The problem is that php does not recognise the new syntax of /usr/share/file/magic.mime . Really we should reconfigure PHP to look at its own private copy of mime.magic and fix that private copy.

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| 0×23 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:27:01 +0000

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By: Zeratul

Zeratul — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:34:00 +0000

Thanks for article and for comment guys

By: Kisho

Kisho — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:54:24 +0000

It is a know problem. Debian had been sloppy in work. You will get this error on every mimeupdate. Simply give the file the chmod 555 also “chmod 555 /usr/share/file/magic.mime”. The next Update, will not change this File.
The problem is that Debian does not ask what shall happen with the file and it simply overwrites. DPKG looks not for differents between the file of the package and the local. This is a error in the postinstall script. The Maintainer is Brian White. I has an e-mail fairly often already sent it but not got any answer. So we have fix it every time or change the write permissions …

So far
Kisho Shin