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Re: [atomic-devel] [PATCH] manifest: Add 'file'
- From: Dusty Mabe <dustymabe gmail com>
- To: Colin Walters <walters verbum org>
- Cc: atomic-devel <atomic-devel projectatomic io>
- Subject: Re: [atomic-devel] [PATCH] manifest: Add 'file'
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:47:36 -0400
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> Sending this one out for discussion since it was a request, but I'm less
> certain about it than the sosreport one.
>
> This tool is commonly used by higher level scripts. It happens to
> be installed by default on the Fedora 20 Cloud image, which is
> a strong reference point.
>
> It's also part of @standard, but personally I think that group is a
> mishmash.
>
> A minus is that libmagic has had its share of CVEs.
> ---
> fedora-atomic-docker-host.json | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fedora-atomic-docker-host.json
> b/fedora-atomic-docker-host.json
> index 830e9f0..4339350 100644
> --- a/fedora-atomic-docker-host.json
> +++ b/fedora-atomic-docker-host.json
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> "heat-cfntools",
> "cloud-utils-growpart",
> "rsync",
> + "file",
> "man-db",
> "man-pages",
> "bash-completion",
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
I like file and use it a lot. That being said I don't know if I should
really have a say in the matter.
Another tool I use a lot is "which"... but where do we draw the line.
It always gets hard when you are trying to make a minimal OS. That is
why I think [1] will be an important feature to add sooner than later.
Dusty
[1] - https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/blob/master/design/package-layering.md
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