xdg-mime not passing URL correctly in RHEL 6

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6

Issue

  • xdg-mime not passing URL correctly.

Resolution

An internal private bug (bz980163) has been opened to track this issue. If you have experienced this bug please open a case with Red Hat Support 1.

  1. https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/38363. ↩︎

Root Cause

The eval line, $1 needs to be quoted to work correctly.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45859#c2

   for x in `echo "$PATH:/opt/gnome/bin" | sed 's/:/ /g'`; do
      if [ -x $x/update-mime-database ] ; then
         DEBUG 1 "Running $x/update-mime-database $1"
         eval '$x/update-mime-database $1'$xdg_redirect_output
         return
      fi

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