Change or bug in "file"-command evtl. messed-up "fai-do-scripts" execution

[René Bleisch]

Hi Toomas,
Both PCs are wheezy (Linux ... 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 
x86_64 GNU/Linux)

"file"-versions:
works correctly:     5.11-2+deb7u*1*
doesn't work:         5.11-2+deb7u*2*

Most likely the  problem is due to the BEGIN { ...} block which is in 
the opening of the respective perl-scripts.
( see 
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlmod.html#BEGIN%2c-UNITCHECK%2c-CHECK%2c-INIT-and-END 
for explanation)
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

*BEGIN {**
**   if ( !$ENV{'PERL_MODULES'} ) {**
**      $ENV{'PERL_MODULES'}= '/srv/fai/config/perl_modules';**
**   }**
**   unshift @INC, $ENV{'PERL_MODULES'};**
**}*

use FAI;
use NFS::Clients;

....
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When I removed the BEGIN { ...} block, "file" recognizes the script 
correctly.

I'll try to replace this block and I will make a bug report.

Regards
René


On 03/21/2014 12:27 PM, Toomas Tamm wrote:
> Hello,
>
> (1) I can not reproduce this. What is your exact version of "file"
> according to dpkg? Mine is 5.11-2+deb7u2  (my Debian is wheezy).
>
> $ cat test
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> print "Hello World\n";
> $ file test
> test: Perl script, ASCII text executable
>
> (2) Could it be something specific in your script? Try deleting parts of
> the script (in a copy, of course) and see if "file" starts detecting
> correctly after some specific part of the script is gone.
>
> If you can show what exactly causes it, you may file a bug against
> "file" in Debian BTS.
>
> Toomas
>
> On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 12:06 +0100, René Bleisch wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Apparently, something went amiss with the linux "file" command since
>> it was last updated in apt... (last week or so)
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