On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 07:14:55PM +0200, Andreas Metzler <g...@bebt.de> wrote:
> On 2023-06-01 raf <g...@raf.org> wrote: > [...] > > but both locations are empty. /usr/share/misc/magic is > > a symlink to /usr/share/file/magic which is empty. I > > wonder how it works. > [...] > > file reads from $(datadir)/misc and libmagic-mgc ships > /usr/lib/file/magic.mgc which is symlinked to /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc. > > cu Andreas Thanks. On Debian the symlink is in the other direction. > l /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc /usr/share/file/magic.mgc /usr/lib/file/magic.mgc /usr/lib/file/magic.mgc /usr/share/file/magic.mgc -> ../../lib/file/magic.mgc /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc -> ../../lib/file/magic.mgc cheers, raf
