Fedora 15 Update: file-5.07-2.fc15

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Wed May 25 02:30:59 UTC 2011


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-7373
2011-05-25 01:54:03
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Name        : file
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 5.07
Release     : 2.fc15
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.

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Update Information:

This update backports fixes for new file-5.07 version regressions.
- update to new version 5.07
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ChangeLog:

* Mon May 23 2011 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza at redhat.com> - 5.07-2
- backported patches to fix 5.07 regressions
- fix #706231 - fixed ZIP detection
- fix #705183, #705499 - removed weak DOS device driver pattern
* Wed May 11 2011 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza at redhat.com> - 5.07-1
- update to new upstream version 5.07
- remove unused patches
* Tue Mar  1 2011 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza at redhat.com> - 5.05-4
- fix #678458 - support for Python 3.2 compiled files
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #706231 - mc doesn't open a zip archive
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706231
  [ 2 ] Bug #705183 - file-5.07-1 started misdetecting Berkeley DB files
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705183
  [ 3 ] Bug #705499 - 'file' command in Rawhide prints "DOS-executable (" [sic] for file of all zeroes
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705499
  [ 4 ] Bug #691246 - file(1) does not recognize .epub e-books (patch attached)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691246
  [ 5 ] Bug #670286 - New version of file released
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670286
  [ 6 ] Bug #664117 - Python source files beginning with three single quotes mis-detected as troff
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664117
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update file' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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