* Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080503 18:39]:
> Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> >> [0] they *could* change format suddenly, only the library and its
> >> bindings are safe.
> >
> > And where is this documented? (It has a documentation for the format, so
> > I guess if that was supposed to be
Daniel Baumann wrote:
>> So it looks to me that file is recreating the (cached) binary versions from
>> the "information purpose only" source files, right?
>
> no, /usr/share/file/magic.mgc and magic.mime.mgc are files own magics,
> they are not supposed to be recompiled or touched by anyone after
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> So how can a sysadmin add rules?
just like before, /etc/magic and /etc/magic.mime. this change is only
about packages wrongly using /usr/share/file/magic{,.mime}.
>> However, as of file version 4.24, the format of the sources has changed
>> in order to compile the mime fi
Bernhard R. Link wrote:
>> [0] they *could* change format suddenly, only the library and its
>> bindings are safe.
>
> And where is this documented? (It has a documentation for the format, so
> I guess if that was supposed to be "writing" only, that was a canonical
> place to state it).
what
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> where as *.mgc are the binary files which are used by file/libmagic, and
> the others are the conlgomerated source files *for informational
> purposes only*. The sources have never been used by file for anything,
> and nobody shall do this either[0].
So
* Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080503 14:52]:
> file or rather libmagic1 ships its magic files in /usr/share/file/,
> namely this used to be:
>
> /usr/share/file/magic
> /usr/share/file/magic.mgc
> /usr/share/file/magic.mime
> /usr/share/file/magic.mime.mgc
>
> where as *.mgc are the binary
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