[pacman-dev] Mime-type filtering?

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 07:41:17 EDT 2009


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2009/3/23 Samed Beyribey <ras0ir at eventualis.org>:
>>>> Well i just noticed that, (probably) mailman rejects my attachment (it
>>>> was 9.5k)
>>>> so i've put it on my web site:
>>>> http://eventualis.org/pacman/0001-fixed-typos-and-alignment-problem-in-Turkish-transla.patch.gz
>>>>
>>>> This is my last mail about this patch, again, i feel so sorry.
>>>
>>> This isn't your fault.
>>>
>>> Aaron, do we not allow gzipped and bzipped files through?
>>
>> I guess not. What's the mime-type for these? Considering mailman uses
>> a whitelist, would anyone be able to construct a decent list that
>> covers pretty much all attachment types we'd want?
>
> Thanks for changing the subject, btw. Here is a simple look at that
> patch, gzipped and additionally unzipped and converted to bzip2.
>
> dmcgee at galway /tmp
> $ file --mime-type patch.gz
> patch.gz: application/x-gzip
>
> dmcgee at galway /tmp
> $ file --mime-type patch.bz2
> patch.bz2: application/x-bzip2


bump :)


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