[Mageia-dev] /usr/bin/file broken on cauldron

[Olivier Blin]

Luc Menut <lmenut at free.fr> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> /usr/bin/file is broken on cauldron (file-5.12-4.mga3).
> It gives weird bogus results (i586 and x86_64), and breaks some builds.
> eg. file /usr/bin/xdg*
> /usr/bin/xdg-desktop-icon:         , 28265
> /usr/bin/xdg-desktop-menu:         , 28265
> /usr/bin/xdg-email:                , 28265
> /usr/bin/xdg-icon-resource:        , 28265
> /usr/bin/xdg_menu:                 assembler source text
> /usr/bin/xdg-mime:                 , 28265
> /usr/bin/xdg-open:                 , 28265
> /usr/bin/xdg-screensaver:          , 28265
> /usr/bin/xdg-settings:             , 28265
> /usr/bin/xdg-user-dir:             , 28265
> /usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, ...
> /usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update:     ELF 64-bit LSB executable, ...

Hi,

Upstream file 5.12 looks quite broken :-/
They updated the 5.12 release tarball (!) on the FTP site with a
collection of fixes, that's quite a bad practice...

See this thread about your issue:
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2013/001019.html

It should be fixed in 5.12-5.mga

Cheers

-- 
Olivier Blin - blino