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

[Luc Menut]

Hi,

Le 09/01/2013 22:57, Olivier Blin a écrit :
> 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
>

Thanks Olivier to look at this pb.

I've just locally rebuilt file-5.11 and your new file-5.12-5.

It's better, but file-5.12-5 still mis-detects some script files; I can 
see that some Perl or shell scripts are reported as 'assembler source 
text' with 5.12-5.
eg.
file -v; file /usr/bin/autoconf /usr/bin/automake /usr/bin/iurt
file-5.11
magic file from /usr/share/misc/magic
/usr/bin/autoconf: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/usr/bin/automake: Perl script, ASCII text executable
/usr/bin/iurt:     Perl script, ISO-8859 text executable, with very long 
lines


file -v; file /usr/bin/autoconf /usr/bin/automake /usr/bin/iurt
file-5.12
magic file from /usr/share/misc/magic
/usr/bin/autoconf: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/usr/bin/automake: assembler source text
/usr/bin/iurt:     assembler source text


It's very annoying because /usr/bin/file is used by find-requires and 
find-provides, and if we do the mass rebuild with a broken 
/usr/bin/file, we will build some rpms with incorrect provides and requires.


regards,
Luc


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Luc Menut