gnu/packages/file.scm

   1 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
   2 ;;; Copyright © 2013 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
   3 ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
   4 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
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  20
  21 (define-module (gnu packages file)
  22   #:use-module (gnu packages)
  23   #:use-module (guix licenses)
  24   #:use-module (guix packages)
  25   #:use-module (guix download)
  26   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu))
  27
  28 (define-public file
  29   (package
  30    (name "file")
  31     (version "5.28")
  32     (source (origin
  33               (method url-fetch)
  34               (uri (string-append "ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-"
  35                                   version ".tar.gz"))
  36               (sha256
  37                (base32
  38                 "04p0w9ggqq6cqvwhyni0flji1z0rwrz896hmhkxd2mc6dca5xjqf"))))
  39    (build-system gnu-build-system)
  40
  41    ;; When cross-compiling, this package depends upon a native install of
  42    ;; itself.
  43    (self-native-input? #t)
  44
  45    (synopsis "File type guesser")
  46    (description
  47     "The file command is a file type guesser, a command-line tool that tells
  48 you in words what kind of data a file contains.  It does not rely on filename
  49 extensions to tell you the type of a file, but looks at the actual contents
  50 of the file.")
  51    (license bsd-2)
  52    (home-page "http://www.darwinsys.com/file/")))
  53