On Sep 21 22:37:11, [email protected] wrote:
> On 2015/09/21 21:31, Jan Stary wrote:
> > On Sep 17 07:30:23, [email protected] wrote:
> > > update to libmagic (file) 5.25
> >
> > What is the relation of OpenBSD's own new file(1) to devel/libmagic?
>
> No code relation. libmagic is a package built from sources of the old
> file(1) (but only provides the library part, not the executable).
>
> > The magic(5) file used by file(1) is version 4.24, while
> > the magic(4) file that comes with libmagic is version 5.25.
> > Can libmagic use the /etc/magic that comes with file(1)?
> > It doesn't seem to be the case: the naive program below
> > shows a bunch of errors when trying to magic_compile(),
> > starting with
> >
> > /tmp/magfile, 627: Warning: string modifier `B' invalid
> > /tmp/magfile, 628: Warning: Current entry does not yet have
> > a description for ad ding a MIME type
> >
> > Is this the discrepancy in the magic file format version?
> > Does that mean that /etc/magic is only used/usable by file(1),
> > but ports using libmagic (e.g. sox) can only use the magic file
> > that comes with it, /usr/local/share/misc/magic.mgc ?
>
> magic.mgc is compiled from files in magdir in the source tree.
> If you take those input files and cat them into a single /etc/magic
> file, that file is usable with file(1) in base, but the reverse isn't
> true, libmagic's parser doesn't like some of the things in base's
> /etc/magic (e.g. lots of the uses of %ld) so for now libmagic needs
> to use its own file.
Thanks for the insight.
Are there any plans to eventually have a base libmagic
that would work with base's file/magic?
(Possibly isolating what's in file/magic* into a library?)
Jan
