Bug 791343 - /usr/bin/file does not detect lzma archives
Summary: /usr/bin/file does not detect lzma archives
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 747999
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: file
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jan Kaluža
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-16 19:54 UTC by jcpunk
Modified: 2012-02-17 06:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-02-17 06:16:17 UTC
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Description jcpunk 2012-02-16 19:54:07 UTC 
Description of problem: The file command reports lzma archives as filetype 'data'.  It would be nice if they could detect lzma archives and report them as such.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):file-5.04-11.el6


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. lzma somefile
2. file somefile
3. note the result
  
Actual results:
reports 'data'

Expected results:
reports 'lzma archive' or something that indicates the file can be extracted with lzma

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jan Kaluža 2012-02-17 06:16:17 UTC 
Thanks for the report, but there's already bug about lzma support. Marking as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 747999 ***
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