On Sep 12, 2013, at 11:40 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > 2013/8/27 Jeffrey Johnson <n3...@me.com> > Not the right fix. > > Here's why: > > RPM includes/uses magic strings returned from libmagic. > > For reproducible results, where external "system" magic changes > arbitrarily, there are any number of problems that ensue > because the (what used to be) /etc/magic text has changed. > > The only proper "reproducible" solution is to distribute/maintain (what used > to be) > /etc magic content directly in RPM. > > RPM used to carry --with-file=internal, removed by popular outcry. > > But chasing arbitrary strings across per-distro content isn't a solvable > problem generally. > The string returned from libmagic comes from vanilla file/libmagic upstream, > not any distro specific identifier/patch, so if supporting magic strings > returned from libmagic, it would make sense to recognize these strings in > order to make libmagic support actually usable, don't you agree? :) >
Whether I agree is irrelevant. There is no concept of "upstream" or "vanilla" that applies to the myriad versions of magic that are around on real world systems that end up in *.rpm packages. 73 de Jeff
