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

Wed Jan 9 23:57:42 CET 2013

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
+
+
+-- 
+Luc Menut
+