Gentoo's file program is reporting uu-encoded files as HTML files. This appears, based on the output, to be an error in the seek of the magic file. The output when doing test1.uue is: test1.uue: \<head HTML document text now if I run the file command from the RedHat box next door on the same gentoo box, where the only change is symlinking the magic file to /usr/share/magic where the file program from RedHat expects it, I get this: test1.uue: uuencoded or xxencoded text Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. uuencode a file 2. file <your new uuencoded file> 3. See outut indicating html Actual Results: As above Expected Results: should report same as the RedHat file command.
what version of file are you using ? what version is the redhat one ?
could you try file-4.07 please
Results are identical. I emerged file 4.07 and ran it against a uuencoded file. It reported it as HTML
Works fine here: -- azarah@nosferatu glibc $ uuencode glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117.ebuild > foo azarah@nosferatu glibc $ uuencode glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117.ebuild glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117.ebuild > foo azarah@nosferatu glibc $ less foo azarah@nosferatu glibc $ file foo foo: uuencoded or xxencoded text azarah@nosferatu glibc $ file --version file-4.06 magic file from /usr/share/misc/file/magic azarah@nosferatu glibc $ -- Please attach the file it miss reports.
Ok. I grabbed 4.07 and manually compiled it because emerge was going back to 4.02 (where's the ebuild file for 4.07?) and after doing the make and make install manually it identified uuencoded files correctly.
Cleaning up bugs. This seems to work ok now.
