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Handle clash between "Python-Magic 0.4.x" and file "python-magic-5.x" #251

Open steveandroulakis opened 11 years ago

steveandroulakis commented 11 years ago

Unfortuately, there are two "magic" packages for Python.

The one we use is: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic/0.4.2

Unfortunately, the makers of "file" have produced their own (with an incompatible API) and called it the same thing: https://github.com/glensc/file/tree/master/python

The "file" source RPM distributed by RHEL6 & Fedora now builds a package called "python-magic", which can be installed by Yum. This will completely break MyTardis if it's installed.

We should probably work out a way of handling this, as if common RHEL/Fedora apps start depending on this package it will cause significant deployment issues.

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