par2cmdline is a program for creating and using PAR2 files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary. It can be used with any kind of file. This is good news for those posting to and downloading binaries from Usenet.
Created attachment 14891 [details] par2cmdline-0.3.ebuild
Created attachment 14892 [details] ChangeLog for par2cmdline
Please go and update the app-arch/par ebuild instead of submitting a new one. Then attach that updated version here.
I'm not sure about that. app-arch/par provides par and this one provides par2. par2 can handle PAR 1 files as well as PAR 2, so it could replace app-arch/par. On the other hand, people may prefer par to par2, and both could coexist with slots. I would prefer separate ebuilds but will listen to guidance.
They are both the same application, it's just a major version update. If the new package provides only a binary 'par2' then it should have a symlink 'par' that causes it to act like the old version.
Created attachment 14906 [details] par-2.0.3.ebuild OK, as requested by robbat2@gentoo.org, here is the ebuild for app-arch/par/par-2.0.3
ebuild in CVS now.
I disagree with Robin's assessment. The parchive team presents par and par2cmdline as two separate applications (thus the two different names). The par app is at version 1.1 and par2cmdline is at version 0.3. At the very least, rename the ebuild to par2cmdline. Calling the par2cmdline ebuild par is confusing at best. Also, the updated ebuild doesn't seem to have made it out into the real world. After doing a emerge sync I get: # emerge -s par Searching... [ Results for search key : par ] [ Applications found : 36 ] * app-arch/par Latest version available: 1.1 Latest version installed: 1.1 Size of downloaded files: 39 kB Homepage: http://parchive.sourceforge.net Description: Parchive archive fixing tool
