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

[Olivier Blin]

Luc Menut <lmenut at free.fr> writes:

> 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.

[...]

> /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.

Hi again,

This might be this one:
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2013/001026.html
Which is claimed to be fixed by the maintainer:
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2013/001040.html

Can you try with upstream git?
https://github.com/glensc/file/commits/master

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Olivier Blin - blino