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

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 16:51:53 CET 2013


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
> 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

This is fixed in git but I couldn't find the specific commit


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