#3479·ripgrep

mime type of ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz is wrong

Author: yangyingchaoCreated Jul 18, 2026Updated Sep 2, 2026

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What version of ripgrep are you using?

15.2.0

How did you install ripgrep?

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/15.2.0/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

What operating system are you using ripgrep on?

Gentoo linux

Describe your bug.

mime type of ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz is wrong.

It should be gzip compressed data, instead of DOS/MBR boot sector...

# (yyc@tdesk)-[~/Downloads]
$ file ripgrep-15.2.0-* 
ripgrep-15.2.0-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz:      gzip compressed data, last modified: Wed Jul 15 16:09:11 2026, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 4404224
ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz: DOS/MBR boot sector
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
# (yyc@tdesk)-[~/Downloads]
$ file --mime-type ripgrep-15.2.0-*                 
ripgrep-15.2.0-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz:      application/gzip
ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz: application/octet-stream

What are the steps to reproduce the behavior?

  1. download from: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/15.2.0/ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

  2. execute

file ripgrep-15.2.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz 

What is the actual behavior?

file reports dos boot sector

What is the expected behavior?

file should report gzip compressed data.