Bug 33100 – bsdiff v4.1 ebuild submission.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Brian Harring (RETIRED) 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) 2003-11-09 14:39:59 UTC]

Created attachment 20483 [details]
bsdiff-4.1.ebuild

[Comment 2 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 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) 2003-11-11 00:14:42 UTC]

See http://emu.gentoo.org/~liquidx/ebuildmistakes.html for more ebuild cleanups.

[Comment 4 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 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) 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) 2003-11-15 00:34:47 UTC]

added to portage.