ports/106858: Extracted mime part of spam email makes file dump core

[Peter Olsson]

The following reply was made to PR ports/106858; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Olsson <pol at leissner.se>
To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/106858: Extracted mime part of spam email makes file dump
 core
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:15:46 +0100 (SNT)

 On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:29 +0100, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
 
 > I attached the author's answer. Could you check your file utility and if it's 
 > old, try with a newer one, please?
 >
 > Cheers,
 > Gabor
 
 Ok, file is at version 4.12 in 6.1-RELEASE-p11.
 I have tried with version 4.19 from ftp.astron.com,
 and that version does not dump core on the problem file.
 
 But I now have /usr/local/bin/file at 4.19 and /usr/bin/file
 at 4.12. What do I have to do to make the entire FreeBSD system
 use /usr/local/bin/file (and the associated magic files of the
 correct version) instead of /usr/bin/file? I can't move away from
 x.x-RELEASE-pxx because of upgrading policy on production servers.
 This goes beyond my usual cvsup, make buildworld/buildkernel/
 installkernel/installworld cycle. Should I put all files from
 file-4.19.tar into /usr/src/contrib/file and then run a make
 buildworld and make installworld?
 
 I'm sorry if this is too much of a beginners question, please
 attach some URL or some relevant search phrase to any RTFM:s.
 
 Thanks!
 
 -- 
 Peter Olsson                    pol at leissner.se