guix-play/gnu/packages/file.scm

;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2013 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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(define-module (gnu packages file)
  #:use-module (gnu packages)
  #:use-module (guix licenses)
  #:use-module (guix packages)
  #:use-module (guix download)
  #:use-module (guix build-system gnu))

(define-public file
  (package
   (name "file")
    (version "5.25")
    (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
              (uri (string-append "ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-"
                                  version ".tar.gz"))
              (sha256
               (base32
                "1jhfi5mivdnqvry5la5q919l503ahwdwbf3hjhiv97znccakhd9p"))))
   (build-system gnu-build-system)

   ;; When cross-compiling, this package depends upon a native install of
   ;; itself.
   (self-native-input? #t)

   (synopsis "File type guesser")
   (description
    "The file command is a file type guesser, a command-line tool that tells
you in words what kind of data a file contains.  It does not rely on filename
extensions to tell you the type of a file, but looks at the actual contents
of the file.")
   (license bsd-2)
   (home-page "http://www.darwinsys.com/file/")))