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

Thu Jan 10 17:38:44 CET 2013

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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
+
+The fix is https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/834831f53398cf2a1cfcd1daaf88c437bbf8d21f
+