Hello,
the current method to register MIME types (
| update-mime-database "/usr/share/mime"
in %post scriptlets) breaks[1] on setups where /usr/share is mounted readonly. This bug seems to affect a lot of recent gnome packages so that a general solution must be found.
The "right" thing would be probably to do the needed checks in the %post scriptlets. But:
* rpm does not offer simple ways for this[2] * every package whould need this check
Last point could be solved by a %__update_mime_database macro incorporating the required tests and actions. But the first issue stays so that a quick hack like checking for EROFS in 'update-mime-database' is perhaps the best solution for now.
Enrico
Footnotes: [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132847 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51193