file not recognizing MP3 files?

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at macports.org
Wed Apr 6 20:57:41 PDT 2011


Depends on your variants / revisions ... eg:

sudo port -f deactivate file @5.05_0+universal
sudo port activate file @5.04_0+universal

On Apr 6, 2011, at 20:00, Greg Earle wrote:

> On Feb 28, 2011, at 19:35 PM, Andrew Watts <ahwatts at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Bumping the version back to version 5.04 (r75061) fixes this problem.
> 
> Given that file @5.05 is the current version, how does one "roll back" the file port to version @5.04 in Mac Ports?
> 
> Can you do something like, say,
> 
> sudo port uninstall file
> sudo port install --version @5.04 file
> 
> or not?  (I'm hesitant to try it because "mediatomb" depends on "file".)
> 
> Since file 5.05 cannot recognize single-architecture executables either, I'd very much like to roll it back until the current version functions correctly.
> 
> --
> 
> [19:53] nightowl:~ % /usr/bin/file /opt/local/bin/pkg-config ; echo '' ; /opt/local/bin/file /opt/local/bin/pkg-config
> /opt/local/bin/pkg-config: Mach-O executable i386
> 
> /opt/local/bin/pkg-config: data
> 
> [19:53] nightowl:~ % /usr/bin/file /usr/bin/file ; echo '' ; /opt/local/bin/file /usr/bin/file
> /usr/bin/file: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
> /usr/bin/file (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
> /usr/bin/file (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable i386
> 
> /usr/bin/file: Mach-O fat file with 2 architectures
> 
> (It would also be nice if file 5.05 identified *which* 2 architectures were in the fat files it still recognizes, like the Mac OS X "file" does.)
> 
> 	- Greg
> 
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