Does KMimeMagic really work with config/magic/*.magic files ?

[Guillaume Laurent]

On Friday 20 February 2004 23:45, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2004 23:34, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > I'm trying to add a "magic mimetype" for rosegarden files. It's copied
> > from KOffice's old type. If I add the line
> >
> > >10	string		audio/x-rosegarden\000      audio/x-rosegarden
>
> The leading ">" means continuation...
> This line alone doesn't make sense, it would have to follow a line that
> doesn't start with a ">".

It does. As I said, our mime type is copied from KOffice old one (we also use 
gzipped xml), so to try it I added that line right after the ones describing 
the old KOffice format in mimelnk/magic, like this :

# KOffice documents (gzipped, with an idenfication string in the 'orig 
filename' header)
>10	string		KOffice
>>18	string		application/x-kchart\004\006	application/x-kchart
>>18	string		application/x-kformula\004\006	application/x-kformula
[...etc...]

>10	string		audio/x-rosegarden\000      audio/x-rosegarden

#KOffice documents post v1.1 (may 1 2002) using zip as a wrapper
...

Hence why it worked

> Try without the ">". If it still doesn't work, you might have the problem
> that anything in the main magic file has priority over the rest

Looks like that's what's happening :-(. The gzip line matches first.

> - if a rule 
> matches there, however generic it might be, any following rule (later in
> the file or in a *.magic file) won't be even looked at. So this doesn't
> work for e.g. ZIP-derived formats.

And gzipped-derived ones too... Would it be acceptable that I commit RG types 
(we have 2) in the main KDE mimelnk/magic file, then ?

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