bin/67236: file(1) does a poor job of recognizing Makefiles

Thu May 27 16:30:56 PDT 2004

The following reply was made to PR bin/67236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at monkeys.com>
Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>,
	FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: bin/67236: file(1) does a poor job of recognizing Makefiles
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 09:20:12 +1000

 On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:09:15PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
 > >Check ports/sysutils/file, it's there. Just not in the base system.
 > 
 > Would it be impertinent of me to ask why the latest version of file(1)
 > is not in the base system?

 obrien@ imported the 3.41 version, you could ask him to import the
 newest version. Or ask him why he hasn't done it yet.

 Edwin

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