Bug 38542

Summary:	file mis-reporting file types
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dan Egli <dan>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dan Egli 2004-01-17 13:11:54 UTC

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.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-01-18 19:50:06 UTC

what version of file are you using ?
what version is the redhat one ?

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-01-20 22:59:03 UTC

could you try file-4.07 please

Comment 3 Dan Egli 2004-01-21 05:36:52 UTC

Results are identical. I emerged file 4.07 and ran it against a uuencoded file. It reported it as HTML

Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-21 11:05:19 UTC

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.

Comment 5 Dan Egli 2004-01-21 12:41:02 UTC

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.

Comment 6 Dan Egli 2004-12-21 20:47:00 UTC

Cleaning up bugs. This seems to work ok now.