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Date:      11 Sep 2005 09:33:01 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Katrina project -- How can I get the libmagic distribution for freebsd 5.3
Message-ID:  <44irx7ybjm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <200509091638.13875.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
References:  <200509091638.13875.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>

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Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> writes:

> I have   reason to doubt the validity of my libmagic distribution.
> 
> I urgently need to resolve this for a non-profit project to provide services 
> for Katrina survivors.
> 
> Does anyone help me to get and re-install that distribution correctly?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov  5 04:19:18 UTC 2004
>     root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

libmagic is part of the base system, and imports are regularly taken
from the maintainer.  The easiest thing to do would be to update your
whole system; short of that, updating just that library from the
FreeBSD cvs tree would probably be the simplest.  

If you really want to go to source, I recall there being some pointers
in a makefile indicating where it came from...

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/



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