ports/106858: Extracted mime part of spam email makes file dump core

[Gabor Kovesdan]

The following reply was made to PR ports/106858; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,  pol at leissner.se
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/106858: Extracted mime part of spam email makes file dump
 core
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:16:32 +0100

 > But I now have /usr/local/bin/file at 4.19 and /usr/bin/file
 > at 4.12. What do I have to do to make the entire FreeBSD system
 > use /usr/local/bin/file (and the associated magic files of the
 > correct version) instead of /usr/bin/file? I can't move away from
 > x.x-RELEASE-pxx because of upgrading policy on production servers.
 > This goes beyond my usual cvsup, make buildworld/buildkernel/
 > installkernel/installworld cycle. Should I put all files from
 > file-4.19.tar into /usr/src/contrib/file and then run a make
 > buildworld and make installworld?
 
 I suggest you just deleting /usr/bin/file and symlinking 
 /usr/local/bin/file there. That's the simplest solution.
 
 Cheers,
 Gabor