Re: ROX and jars and zips

Thanks. Can a fix (theoretically) be hacked in ROX or does the fix need to come from the XDG MIME gods?

-M



----- Original Message ----
> From: Stephen Watson <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tue, December 22, 2009 8:26:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [rox-users] ROX and jars and zips
> 
> Mithat Konar wrote:
> 
> > I've got two different versions of ROX-Filer on my Ubuntu Jaunty setup.
> One is the version packaged by Ubuntu (2.5) and the other the latest bin
> from http://sourceforge.net/projects/rox/files/rox/ (2.10).
> > 
> > The Ubuntu package version seems to differentiate between *.zip and *.jar
> files just fine. However, when I use the 2.10 download, it seems to insist
> that jars are zips. I installed the 2.10 download in ~/.local/lib, have a
> link to it in ~/.local/bin, and have ~/.local/bin in the PATH.
> > 
> > I can't figure out where each are getting their MIME info or otherwise
> figure out what's going on. Help?
> 
> 2.5 used a 2005 implementation of the XDG MIME database, 2.10 uses a 2007
> implementation.  There appears to be a bug in the new code:
> 
> * application/x-java-archive has an alias application/x-jar
> * the glob matching returns *both* type names
> * the magic matching fails to match the application/x-java-archive because
> the 0xCAFE match might not be in the correct place
> * the magic matches a Zip file, because it is.
> 
> It looks like the XDG code needs either an update or a bug fix.
> 
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