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+SUMMARY = "File classification tool"
+DESCRIPTION = "File attempts to classify files depending \
+on their contents and prints a description if a match is found."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.darwinsys.com/file/"
+SECTION = "console/utils"
+
+# two clause BSD
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;beginline=2;md5=6a7382872edb68d33e1a9398b6e03188"
+
+DEPENDS = "zlib file-native"
+DEPENDS_class-native = "zlib-native"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/file/file.git \
+        file://debian-742262.patch \
+        file://0001-Add-P-prompt-into-Usage-info.patch \
+        "
+
+SRCREV = "3c0874be4d3232d672b20f513451a39cfd7c585a"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/misc/*.mgc"
+
+do_install_append_class-native() {
+	create_cmdline_wrapper ${D}/${bindir}/file \
+		--magic-file ${datadir}/misc/magic.mgc
+}
+
+do_install_append_class-nativesdk() {
+	create_cmdline_wrapper ${D}/${bindir}/file \
+		--magic-file ${datadir}/misc/magic.mgc
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"