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authorPaolo Borelli <borellip@amazon.com>2022-09-28 14:37:03 +0200
committerXavier Claessens <xclaesse@gmail.com>2022-09-28 12:07:24 -0400
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gnome: add support for update-mime-database
Fixes https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/10865
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@@ -415,3 +415,5 @@ It takes the following keyword arguments:
`<prefix>/<datadir>/icons/hicolor`.
- `update_desktop_database`: *Since 0.59.0* If set to `true`, update cache of
MIME types handled by desktop files in `<prefix>/<datadir>/applications`.
+- `update_mime_database`: *Since 0.64.0* If set to `true`, update cache of
+ MIME types in `<prefix>/<datadir>/mime`.
diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/gnome_update_mime_database.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/gnome_update_mime_database.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+## Added `update_mime_database` to `gnome.post_install()`
+
+Applications that install a `.xml` file containing a `mime-type` need to update
+the cache upon installation. Most applications do that using a custom script,
+but it can now be done by Meson directly.