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- How users can inject their own magics for fun:
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- 1. open /etc/magic and /etc/magic.mime with a text editor, as root,
- and add your own magics.
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- 2. have fun.
-
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- How package maintainers can inject their own magics for profit:
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- 1. place your magics as plain text files in
- /usr/share/file/${binary_package_name}.
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- 2. call 'file --compile ${binary_package_name}' from /usr/share/file
- in your postinst script (maybe we should have a trigger for that
- at some point). this will produce the binary magics
- /usr/share/file/${binary_package_name}.mgc.
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- 3. remove the binary magics in your postrm script.
-
- 4. profit.
-
- -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:22:58 +0100
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