amavis[12345]: (12345-02) (!)file utility failed: exit 1

[Scot Hetzel]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Michael Grimm
<trashcan at odo.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'd like to come back on an issue reported last October (see thread ending in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-October/087175.html).
>
> amavisd-new requires sysutils/file which throws an error like ...
>
> | test> /usr/local/bin/file ascii.txt
> | ascii.txt: ERROR: line 163: regex error 17, (illegal byte sequence)
>
> ... whereas the system file utility acts as expected:
>
> | test> /usr/bin/file ascii.txt
> | ascii.txt: ASCII text
>
> I did notice it for the first time with file-5.15. Today I did upgrade to file-5.17, and I do still see that error.
>
> According the message obove (see link) that bug should have been fixed already, correct or am I mistaken?
>
I checked the Magdir/windows file and the bug is still there.  You
will need to apply the patch that is in PR 183257 to get rid of the
error.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=183257

Could someone commit this patch to the sysutils/file port.

Thanks,

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