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and subject line Re: non-deterministic results if the magic file is a directory
has caused the Debian Bug report #488562,
regarding non-deterministic results if the magic file is a directory
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Package: file
Version: 4.24-3
Severity: normal
The root cause of #481247 is that when magic.mgc is compiled during the
package build, the files in Magdir/ come out in an unpredictable order,
depending on the underlying filesystem (readdir() doesn't sort its
results). By contrast, the order of /usr/share/file/magic is determined
by "echo *" in debian/rules, which (at least on bash and dash) gives
sorted results.
file(1) probably ought to readdir() the whole directory into an array of
strings, sort them lexicographically, and iterate over the result.
As a workaround for #481247 I'll just remove magic.mgc and re-create it
from (the file that will become) /usr/share/file/magic.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101,
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages file depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libmagic1 4.24-3 File type determination library us
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Version: 4.24-4
As already implied before, this is a non-issue when building the plain
magic file with the upstream build system rather than with debian
hackery, which as said before I did now, thus closing.
Regards,
Daniel
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