[el5_latest] file-4.17-28.x86_64

Name:	file
Version:	4.17
Release:	28
Architecture:	x86_64
Group:	Applications/File
Size:	1707246
License:	distributable
RPM:	file-4.17-28.x86_64.rpm
Source RPM:	file-4.17-28.src.rpm
Build Date:	Wed Sep 26 2012
Build Host:	ca-build10.us.oracle.com
Vendor:	Oracle America
URL:	http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
Summary:	A utility for determining file types.
Description:	The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the type of data contained by the file. File can identify many different file types, including ELF binaries, system libraries, RPM packages, and different graphics formats. You should install the file package, since the file command is such a useful utility.

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Wed Jun 13 2012 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 4.17-28
```
- removed fix for #826897
```

Fri Jun 08 2012 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 4.17-27

- fix #826897 - do not break the ABI by making prpsoffsets static

Wed Jun 06 2012 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 4.17-26

- fix #826899 - add "magic" definition for BIOS versions
- fix #826897 - do not trim too much of command line from core file
- fix #826901 - removed weak DOS executable patterns
- fix #809801 - add xz compression support

Thu May 31 2012 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 4.17-25
```
- fix #758631 - identify zip64
```
Wed May 30 2012 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 4.17-24
```
- fix #789830 - fix misdetection as Infocom Game Data
```

Wed May 30 2012 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 4.17-23

- fix #789830 - backported code to ignore matches with empty string

Tue May 15 2012 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 4.17-22

- fix #758105 - detect swap signature on ia64
- fix #758631 - identify zip64
- fix #758634 - identify webm
- fix #809801 - identify lzma
- fix #789830 - fix misdetection as Infocom Game Data

Tue Dec 20 2011 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> 4.17-21

- fix #758429 - check jpeg pattern before minix FS pattern

Tue Dec 06 2011 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> 4.17-20
```
- fix #760082 - print RPM filename
```

Fri Nov 11 2011 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> 4.17-19

- fix #751030 - detect s390 kernel, do not detect kernels as ELF binaries
- fix #751032 - detect all RPM architectures
- fix #751022 - do not try to get coredump informations from normal binary

Fri Sep 30 2011 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> 4.17-18

- fix #548450 - mention exit code in manpage when tested file does not exist

Wed Sep 28 2011 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> 4.17-17

- fix #494831 - do not display "for GNU/Linux 2.6.9" twice
- fix #498671,#692435 - added mime types for XML
- fix #504417 - recognize PPC swap properly
- fix #505656 - do not print .doc mime type twice
- fix #508688 - print complete PPD version
- fix #618910 - do not read whole file from stdin if it's not ELF
- fix #641838 - fixed bug when gzip was recognized as FLC
- fix #668125 - differentiate between GFS1 and GFS2
- fix #489493 - identify dump format on ppc/s390x

Thu Apr 23 2009 Daniel Novotny <dnovotny@redhat.com> 4.17-16
```
- fix #486328 -  Incorrect command name from the core file
```

Thu Aug 07 2008 Tomas Smetana <tsmetana@redhat.com> - 4.17-15

- Related: #235420 - detect also byte order mark in XML files

Wed Aug 06 2008 Tomas Smetana <tsmetana@redhat.com> - 4.17-14

- fix #235420 - recognize UTF-16, little-endian encoded XML file
- fix #249473 - wrongly identifies text file as MPEG-4 LO-EP
- fix #428437 - GFS2 recognition
- fix #444524 - ext4/ext4dev recognition

Wed Mar 12 2008 Tomas Smetana <tsmetana@redhat.com> - 4.17-13
```
- correct the EFI detection patch
```
Thu Mar 06 2008 Tomas Smetana <tsmetana@redhat.com> - 4.17-12
```
- fix #435695 - file command segfaults
```
Fri Dec 07 2007 Tomas Smetana <tsmetana@redhat.com> - 4.17-11
```
- fix #212227 - file doesn't properly identify PE32+ files
```

Sat May 26 2007 Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsk@redhat.com> - 4.17-10

- resolves: #241027: CVE-2007-2799 file integer overflow
- Resolves: #233337: CVE-2007-1536: file 4.20 fixes a heap overflow 
  in that can result in arbitrary code

Thu Aug 24 2006 Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsky@redhat.com> - 4.17-8
```
- fix recognition of perl script with embed awk (#203610)
```
Sat Aug 19 2006 Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsk@redhat.com> - 4.17-7
```
- fix recognition of bash script with embed awk (#202185)
```
Fri Aug 04 2006 Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsk@redhat.com> - 4.17-6
```
- fix gziped empty file (#72986)
```
Thu Jul 13 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 4.17-5.1
```
- rebuild
```
Tue Jul 11 2006 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> 4.17-5
```
- fix powerpoint mine (#190373) <vonsch@gmail.com>
```

Thu May 25 2006 Radek Vokál <rvokal@redhat.com> 4.17-4

- /usr/share/file is owned by package (#192858)
- fix magic for Clamav files (#192406)

Sat Apr 22 2006 Radek Vokál <rvokal@redhat.com> 4.17-3
```
- add support for OCFS or ASM (#189017)
```

Wed Mar 15 2006 Radek Vokál <rvokal@redhat.com> 4.17-2

- fix segfault when compiling magic
- add check for wctype.h
- fix for flac and mp3 files

Tue Mar 14 2006 Radek Vokál <rvokal@redhat.com> 4.17-1
```
- upgrade to file-4.17, patch clean-up
```
Sat Feb 11 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 4.16-6.2
```
- bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)
```
Wed Feb 08 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 4.16-6.1
```
- rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes
```
Sun Feb 05 2006 Radek Vokál <rvokal@redhat.com> 4.16-6
```
- xen patch, recognizes Xen saved domain
```
Sat Jan 14 2006 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> 4.16-5
```
- fix for 64bit arrays
```
Sat Dec 10 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
```
- rebuilt
```

Wed Nov 30 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.16-4

- printf utf8 filenames and don't use isprint() (#174348)

Wed Nov 09 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.16-3
```
- remove .la files (#172633)
```
Tue Nov 01 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.16-2
```
- fix core files output, show "from" (#172015)
```
Wed Oct 19 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.16-1
```
- upgrade to upstream
```
Tue Oct 04 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.15-4
```
- file output for Berkeley DB gains Cracklib (#168917)
```

Tue Sep 20 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.15-3

- small fix in previously added patch, now it works for multiple params

Tue Sep 20 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.15-2
```
- print xxx-style only once (#168617)
```
Wed Aug 10 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.15-1
```
- upgrade to upstream
```
Wed Aug 10 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.14-4
```
- mime for mpeg and aac files fixed (#165323)
```

Sat Aug 06 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.14-3

- mime for 3ds files removed, conflicts with text files (#165165)

Sat Jul 23 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.14-2
```
- fixed mime types recognition (#163866) <mandriva.org>
```
Fri Jul 15 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.14-1
```
- sync with upstream, patch clean-up
```
Tue Jul 05 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.13-5
```
- fixed reiserfs check (#162378)
```

Tue Apr 12 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.13-4

- check Cyrus files before Apple Quicktime movies (#154342)

Tue Mar 08 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.13-3
```
- check for shared libs before fs dump files (#149868)
```
Sat Mar 05 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.13-2
```
- gcc4 rebuilt
```

Wed Feb 16 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.13-1

- new version, fixing few bugs, patch clean-up
- consistent output for bzip files (#147440)

Tue Jan 25 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.12-3

- core64 patch fixing output on core files (#145354) <kzak@redhat.com>
- minor change in magic patch

Tue Jan 04 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.12-2

- fixed crashes in threaded environment (#143871) <arjanv@redhat.com>

Fri Dec 03 2004 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> - 4.12-1

- upgrade to file-4.12
- removed Tim's patch, tuned magic patch

Sun Nov 21 2004 Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> - 4.10-4
```
- Convert libmagic.3 to UTF-8
```

Fri Nov 19 2004 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> 4.10-3

- set of patches from debian.org
- new magic types (#128763)
- zlib added to BuildReq (#125294)

Wed Oct 13 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.10-2
```
- Fixed occasional segfault (bug #131892).
```

Thu Aug 12 2004 Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com>

- zlib patch deleted, note patch deleted, rh patch updated, debian patch updated
- upgrade to file-4.10

Wed Jun 16 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
```
- rebuilt
```
Tue May 11 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- fix ELF note handling (#109495)
```
Wed Mar 24 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.de> 4.07-3
```
- add docs (#115966)
```
Wed Mar 03 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
```
- rebuilt
```
Sat Feb 14 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
```
- rebuilt
```

Mon Jan 19 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.07-1

- upgrade to 4.07.
- deal gracefully with unreadable files (#113207).
- detect PO files (from Debian).

Wed Dec 17 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.06-1
```
- upgrade to file-4.06.
```
Tue Nov 11 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.02-4
```
- Minimal fix for busy loop problem (bug #109495).
```
Tue Oct 14 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.05-1
```
- upgrade to 4.05.
```

Fri Oct 10 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj@jbj.org> 4.02-3

- use zlib rather than exec'ing gzip.

-* Thu Aug 28 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
-- Add Selinux support.

Thu Jun 05 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
```
- rebuilt
```
Sun May 25 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>
```
- add ldconfig to post/postun
```
Tue Apr 22 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> 4.02-1
```
- upgrade to file-4.02.
```
Fri Feb 28 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> 3.39-9
```
- check size read from elf header (#85297).
```

Wed Feb 19 2003 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com> 3.39-8

- add FHS compatibility symlink from /usr/share/misc/magic -> ../magic
  (#84509)

Sat Feb 15 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> 3.39-7

- the "real" fix to the vorbis/ogg magic details (#82810).

Tue Jan 28 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> 3.39-6
```
- avoid vorbis/ogg magic details (#82810).
```
Thu Jan 23 2003 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com> 3.39-5
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- rebuilt
```
Mon Jan 13 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 3.39-4
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- PT_NOTE, take 3
```
Sat Jan 11 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 3.39-3
```
- don't barf in ELF headers with align = 0
```
Wed Jan 08 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 3.39-2
```
- don't get lost when looking at PT_NOTE sections
```
Sun Oct 27 2002 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> 3.39-1
```
- update to 3.39.
```
Sat Jun 22 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
```
- automated rebuild
```
Fri May 24 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
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- automated rebuild
```
Tue May 07 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 3.37-6
```
- Don't use an old magic.mime 
- Add mng detection (#64229)
```
Wed Feb 27 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 3.37-5
```
- Rebuild
```
Tue Jan 15 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 3.37-4
```
- Fix missing include of <stdint.h> (#58209)
```
Wed Dec 12 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 3.37-2
```
- Add CFLAGS to handle large files (#53576)
```

Tue Dec 11 2001 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 3.37-1

- 3.37
- s/Copyright/License/
- build with --enable-fsect-man5, drop patch
- disable two old patches

Sat Jul 07 2001 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche@redhat.de>

- revert a patch to Magdir/elf, which breaks many libtool scripts
  in several rpm packages

Tue Jun 26 2001 Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher@redhat.com>
```
- iterate to 3.35
```
Mon Jun 25 2001 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
```
- Bump release + rebuild.
```
Mon Nov 27 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
```
- update to 3.33.
```
Tue Aug 15 2000 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
```
- Bill made the patch but didn't apply it. :)
```
Tue Aug 15 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
```
- 'ASCII text', not 'ASCII test' (#16168)
```

Tue Aug 01 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

- fix off-by-1 error when creating filename for use with -i.
- include a copy of GNOME /etc/mime-types in /usr/share/magic.mime (#14741).

Sun Jul 23 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

- install magic as man5/magic.5 with other formats (#11172).

Thu Jul 13 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com>
```
- automatic rebuild
```
Thu Jun 15 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
```
- FHS packaging.
```
Sat Apr 15 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
```
- 3.30
```
Thu Feb 17 2000 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
```
- add ia64 patch from rth
```
Tue Feb 08 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
```
- handle compressed manpages
- update to 3.28
```

Tue Aug 24 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

- identify ELF stripped files correctly (#4665).
- use SPARC (not sparc) consistently throughout (#4665).
- add entries for MS Office files (#4665).

Fri Aug 13 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

- diddle magic so that *.tfm files are identified correctly.

Wed Jul 07 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
```
- update to 3.27.
```
Tue Mar 23 1999 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
```
- experimental support for realmedia files added
```

Mon Mar 22 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

- auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 5)

Sat Mar 20 1999 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
```
- strip binary.
```
Sat Nov 28 1998 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz>
```
- add SPARC V9 magic.
```
Wed Nov 11 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
```
- update to 3.26.
```

Tue Aug 25 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

- update to 3.25.
- detect gimp XCF versions.

Fri May 08 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>
```
- translations modified for de, fr, tr
```
Thu Apr 09 1998 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
```
- updated to 3.24
- buildrooted
```
Tue Jun 03 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
```
- built against glibc
```
Tue Apr 01 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
```
- Fixed problems caused by 64 bit time_t.
```
Fri Mar 07 1997 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>
```
- Improved recognition of Linux kernel images.
```