[indiana-discuss] Default association for OpenOffice mime types

[Bart Smaalders]

David.Comay at sun.com wrote:
>> I was wondering, if some one has already filed a bug to track this. 
>> With OpenSolaris 2008.11 (both b101 and b106), most of the OpenOffice 
>> document types are not recognized by gnome, thunderbird as well as 
>> firefox until we manually specify the association between these file 
>> types with the appropriate command name.  Is it unreasonable to expect 
>> a more smoother integration ?
> 
> I believe you're seeing the fact that the restart_fmri facility came in
> *after* 2008.05 but we publish certain packages like openoffice against
> the 2008.05 itself so it lacks the restart_fmri tags.
> 
> Bart and I spoke about this at one time and it's likely safe for us to
> publish the tags back to the earlier build since pkg(1) should ignore
> them but we would have to verify that formally before making this
> change.

This will work; tags which aren't understood by the system are
generally ignored.

- Bart




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