Bug 178513

Summary:	sys-apps/file-4.20-r1 recognizes .doc files as "Microsoft Installer"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Khayyam <cselkirk>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Khayyam 2007-05-14 14:38:00 UTC

file now incorrectly recognizes Microsoft doc files as "Microsoft Installer". It currently breaks lesspipe.sh (which would hand the former off to antiword) as there is no file handler for "Microsoft Installer".

Eg:

file $HOME/my.doc: 
/home/myuser/my.doc: Microsoft Installer

a find/exec on all the doc files currently in my $HOME show each doc file as an Installer.

I can reproduce this on Debian and so this is an upstream issue (relating to files "magic")

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-02-14 02:04:40 UTC

please post a sample file as an attachment so we can reproduce

Comment 2 Khayyam 2009-02-18 13:26:34 UTC

I reported this upstream and it has since been fixed (the bug is from 2007).