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Bug 14741

Summary:	Missing file /usr/share/magic.mime
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component:	gnome-libs	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	Winston gold
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Last Closed:	2002-12-15 00:29:36 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Enrico Scholz 2000-07-27 18:29:45 UTC

/usr/share/magic.mime is needed for the -i option:

$ file -i core
file: couldn't find any magic files!
[... copying magic.mime ...]
$ file -i core
core: application/x-coredump

I don't know which magic.mime file is the best one. The 'file' package
itself contains such a file, but 'gnome-libs' is installing /etc/mime-magic
which seems to be more extensive.

Comment 1 Glen Foster 2000-07-30 21:48:09 UTC

This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2000-07-31 18:23:32 UTC

A copy of /etc/mime-magic is now included as /usr/share/magic.mime, that should
fix
the critical Winston problem.

However, since /etc/mime-magic (from gnome-libs) and /usr/share/magic.mime (from
file) are copies, this bug is almost certainly gonna crop up again unless 
	1) only one of the packages file and gnome-libs owns the file contents.
	2) both file and gnome (and KDE and ...)  start using the same path to the file
contents.

DEFERRED to gnome-libs for contemplation.

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2002-10-27 16:12:23 UTC

Yup, here comes the problem from file(1) again,
the gnome-libs copy of /usr/share/mime.magic
has been replaced with the file copy.

Off to gnome-libs for answers to:

1) Which package, gnome-libs or file, should
carry "official" mime types onto the file system?
I'd suggest file, but understand OTOH too.

2) Can we get a unified copy of mime types onto
a common path for both file and gnome-libs?

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2002-10-27 16:14:12 UTC

*** Bug 76821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jeff Johnson 2002-10-27 16:46:59 UTC

Bounce back to file with the answers, and I'll be happy
to do the work :-)