1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/mime.bbclass b/meta/classes/mime.bbclass
index c9072adf3b..bb99bc35cb 100644
--- a/meta/classes/mime.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/mime.bbclass
@@ -24,7 +24,18 @@ if [ "x$D" != "x" ]; then
                 mimedir=${MIMEDIR}
 else
         echo "Updating MIME database... this may take a while."
-        update-mime-database $D${MIMEDIR}
+        # $D${MIMEDIR}/packages belong to package shared-mime-info-data,
+        # packages like libfm-mime depend on shared-mime-info-data.
+        # after shared-mime-info-data uninstalled, $D${MIMEDIR}/packages
+        # is removed, but update-mime-database need this dir to update
+        # database, workaround to create one and remove it later
+        if [ ! -d $D${MIMEDIR}/packages ]; then
+                mkdir -p $D${MIMEDIR}/packages
+                update-mime-database $D${MIMEDIR}
+                rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty $D${MIMEDIR}/packages
+        else
+                update-mime-database $D${MIMEDIR}
+fi
 fi
 }