On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Matt Taggart wrote:
>> When I upload a tarball for analysis (tar.gz or tar.bz2) via the >> upload file >> option, the tarball is not unpacked before analysis. The history of >> the job >> reports that upack has run and completed OK, but browsing the >> completed >> analysis results shows that no files have in fact been extracted >> from the >> archive. The only data to be seen is the raw content of the archive >> and no >> licences are detected, even though licences (e.g. GPL, BSD) are >> present. > > I think you are running into this libmagic bug > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500734 > > We don't yet have a fix that will work on both older and newer > versions of > libmagic, but you could hack your copy of the source to only work on > new > versions in order to get it working. > > I just upgraded the severity of the bug to Release Critical, hopefully > someone will come up with a fix. > > -- > Matt Taggart > [email protected] That seems pretty likely and if so, the work around I gave prevously will probably not work. As soon as I can get some test machines set up, I'll work on a fossology fix that will work for Ubuntu 8.10 and the older version of libmagic. Bob _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list [email protected] http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
