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Bug 33100

Summary: bsdiff v4.1 ebuild submission.
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Brian Harring (RETIRED) <ferringb>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: bsdiff-4.1.ebuild
bsdiff-4.1.ebuild w/ depend fix
bsdiff-4.1.ebuild w/ src_uri changed to match 'common ebuild mistakes'
bsdiff-4.1.ebuild (hopefully) final fix.

Description Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-09 14:38:00 UTC
Ebuild for bsdiff, a suffix based binary differencer.  Performs quite well,
downside is that it's memory usage limits it from being used on large datasets.
homepage http://www.daemonlogy.net/bsdiff .
Freebsd is currently using it in an attempt at security related binary updates.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-09 14:39:59 UTC
Created attachment 20483 [details]
bsdiff-4.1.ebuild
Comment 2 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-10 00:51:23 UTC
Created attachment 20507 [details]
bsdiff-4.1.ebuild w/ depend fix

Fixed a missing depend- bzip2, which is required.
Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-11 00:14:42 UTC
See http://emu.gentoo.org/~liquidx/ebuildmistakes.html for more ebuild cleanups.
Comment 4 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-11 00:32:43 UTC
Created attachment 20567 [details]
bsdiff-4.1.ebuild w/ src_uri changed to match 'common ebuild mistakes'
Comment 5 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-13 18:28:40 UTC
Created attachment 20719 [details]
bsdiff-4.1.ebuild (hopefully) final fix.

Tweak to ensure hardcoded bzip2 path is set correctly.
Comment 6 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-15 00:34:47 UTC
added to portage.