diff --git a/core/file/PKGBUILD b/core/file/PKGBUILD
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+# $Id$
+# Maintainer: Sébastien Luttringer <seblu@archlinux.org>
+# Contributor: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
+# Contributor: Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - --disable-libseccomp - emits bad systems calls on ARM
+
+pkgname=file
+pkgver=5.33
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc='File type identification utility'
+arch=('x86_64')
+license=('custom')
+groups=('base' 'base-devel')
+url='https://www.darwinsys.com/file/'
+depends=('glibc' 'zlib')
+source=("ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"{,.asc})
+validpgpkeys=('BE04995BA8F90ED0C0C176C471112AB16CB33B3A') # Christos Zoulas
+md5sums=('bbe6db96e3a9ca9554dce647390540ef'
+         'SKIP')
+
+prepare() {
+  cd $pkgname-$pkgver
+  # apply patch from the source array (should be a pacman feature)
+  local filename
+  for filename in "${source[@]}"; do
+    if [[ "$filename" =~ \.patch$ ]]; then
+      msg2 "Applying patch ${filename##*/}"
+      patch -p1 -N -i "$srcdir/${filename##*/}"
+    fi
+  done
+  :
+}
+
+build() {
+  cd $pkgname-$pkgver
+  ./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/file --enable-fsect-man5 --disable-libseccomp
+  make
+}
+
+check() {
+  cd $pkgname-$pkgver
+  make check
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd $pkgname-$pkgver
+  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+  install -Dm644 COPYING "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYING"
+}
+
+# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et: