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FS#3169 - file 4.15 doesnt understand ISO images

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tommi Rantala (ttrantal) - Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 18:10 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 19:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The new version 4.15 of the 'file' utility doesn't print out the information it used to do for ISO 9660 CD images.

$ file --version
file-4.14
magic file from /usr/share/misc/file/magic

$ file *iso
win95osr25fi.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'W95_OSR2.5FI '
win98se.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'WIN98 SE ' (bootable)


$ file --version
file-4.15
magic file from /usr/share/misc/file/magic

$ file *iso
win95osr25fi.iso:
win98se.iso:
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Thursday, 27 October 2005, 17:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Tommi Rantala (ttrantal) - Thursday, 27 October 2005, 12:23 GMT
Seems to have been fixed in 4.16:

$ file --version
file-4.16
magic file from /usr/share/misc/file/magic

$ file *iso
win95osr25fi.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'W95_OSR2.5FI '
win98se.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'WIN98 SE ' (bootable)

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