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Re: Is it normal for file from pkgsrc not to recognize MIME for application/x-xz?



Am Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:12:37 +0100
schrieb Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>:

> "Dr. Thomas Orgis" <thomas.orgis%uni-hamburg.de@localhost> wrote:

> Not returning the specific MIME type for XZ looks to be a bug in the
> original definition to me.
> 
> In magic/magdir/compress, there is a blank line between the non-MIME
> and the MIME lines for XZ.
> 
> Putting a copy of the definition in ~/.magic with the blank line removed
> makes it return "application/x-xz; charset=binary" for me.

What did you exactly to achieve that? I patched the source and don't
see improvement.

bash-5.0$ diff -u magic/Magdir/compress{.orig,}
--- magic/Magdir/compress.orig	2021-03-31 01:47:28.000000000
+0200 +++ magic/Magdir/compress	2022-08-17 11:10:34.768272830
+0200 @@ -269,7 +269,6 @@
 >7	byte&0xf	0x1			CRC32
 >7	byte&0xf	0x4			CRC64
 >7	byte&0xf	0xa			SHA-256
-
 !:strength * 2
 !:mime	application/x-xz

[make for building the new database locally]

$ file -m magic/magic.mgc -i adwaita-icon-theme-41.0.tar.xz 
adwaita-icon-theme-41.0.tar.xz: application/octet-stream; charset=binary

Can you show me the exact magic source snipped you used (and then ran
through file -C, I guess)?


Alrighty then,

Thomas 

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