Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

[heymanj]

On 26 August 2017 at 14:38, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden>wrote:

> Hi jerry,
>
>> $ file --brief --dereference --mime-type test/mhbuild/nulls
>> binary
>
> Could you tell us about that file(1).  I found a site for Mageia
> packages, but it didn't have one called `file' so I wasn't sure what
> package contained the command, and where it got the source from, what
> version, etc.
>
> Here, with Arch Linux's file 5.31-1 package, I get
>
>     $ file --brief --dereference --mime-type test/mhbuild/nulls
>     application/octet-stream
>     $ file --version
>     file-5.31
>     magic file from /usr/share/file/misc/magic
>     $

Ralph,

The version of Mageia I'm running is back level.  It went out of support
over a year ago.  I generall upgrade to their even releases (once every
two years, rather than annually).

Here is the information on the file command:

address@hidden nmh-1.7-RC3]$ file --version
file-5.16
magic file from /usr/share/misc/magic
address@hidden nmh-1.7-RC3]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/file
file-5.16-1.10.mga4

jerry
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