[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#644227: Bug#644227: lighttpd create-mime.assign.pl ignores ~/.mime.types

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Magnus Olsson <magnus at minimum.se> wrote:
> On 10/04/2011 10:22 AM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Magnus Olsson<magnus at minimum.se>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I want to add support for .json files which currently are treated as some
>>> kind of binary file by lighttpd.
>>> This is mostly a webserver extension, so I guess it also applies to
>>> apache
>>
>> It sounds like a global mime type, not restricted to the domain of web
>> servers.
>>
>>> and other webservers. I am unsure if these too use the /etc/mime.types
>>> files, if they do, it makes sense adding it to the mime-support package
>>> and
>>
>> I think they do.
>>
>>> integrate .json files into upstream /etc/mime.types
>>>
>>> However, I also plan on using a custom file extension, for which I need a
>>> mime-type. I don't really care if it's per-user (as long as www-data
>>> counts
>>> as a user), per-daemon (as long as lighttpd is included) or system-wide
>>> way
>>> to define the mime-type for this custom file ext.. I simply need a way of
>>> doing it.
>>>
>>> With the current system, how do you suggest adding a new mime-type? The
>>> only
>>> way I see is editing /etc/mime.types, which will cause conflicts for
>>> every
>>> update of mime-support package.
>>
>> I've never needed to alter mime types, but you're right, editing
>> mime.types isn't ideal.
>> Unfortunately the file name and type of mime types is hard-coded (at
>> least in Lighttpd), so I think there's no better option.
>> Ideally there'd be a mime.user.types or so for the sys admin to use.
>
> A mime.user.types would be ideal. Do you propose adding this to lighttpd or
> should this be added to the mime-support package?

It's not Lighttpd specific, so it shouldn't be in the Lighttpd pkg.
Your best bet is to ask the developers of mime-support how this should
be handled properly.

Olaf