[Wine] Can someone help me write an update-binfmts script for binfmt-support?

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Fri Apr 6 00:49:51 BST 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 11:12 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:40:19PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:42:53AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > > MIME suport for .exe's was removed, under the theory that binfmt-support
> > > can be configured to run them.  See, eg, this bug:
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/24829
> 
> As Colin points out, binfmt support for Wine is already done and 
> working.
> 
> After testing this a little more, it seems that Nautilus is doing some 
> kind of caching of execute bits and mime types?  It's not clear to me, 
> but even with a binfmt registered, Nautilus won't attempt to run an 
> executable file unless it's an ELF.  :(  This is a separate bug.
> 

All right, that makes it a lot easier.  Is it too late to fix this for
Feisty?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie




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