Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:29:25 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devel/kscope/Makefile is not ASCII Message-ID: <1121740165.9014.6.camel@tirun> In-Reply-To: <42DC2B57.27763.F84D077@localhost> References: <42DC2B57.27763.F84D077@localhost>
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On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 22:21 -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > [dan@nezlok:/usr] $ file ports/devel/kscope/Makefile > ports/devel/kscope/Makefile: Apple Old Partition data block size: > 21117 first type: HTML/en/${PORTNAME}, number of blocks: 1935896432, > > Several others have tested their ports tree and found similar > results. I've tried both the base system file and the one from > ports. Both give similar results. > > Any ideas why this file is so special? The "magic" entry for Apple partitions is a bit unfortunate? If a file happens to have the string 'CD' at offset 512, file will misrecognize it as an "Apple Old Partition data" file. (And if it's "MP" then it's "Apple Partition data".) -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH
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