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Port details
diffutils GNU differential compare utilities
3.8_1 textproc on this many watch lists=28 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 3.8Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: schaiba@gmail.com search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2001-09-17 03:27:57
Last Update: 2024-02-23 16:54:15
Commit Hash: 116278e
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License: GPLv3+
WWW:
https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html
Description:
The Free Software Foundation's "diff" utilities, including "diff", "diff3", "sdiff", and "cmp". These utilities exist in the FreeBSD base collection, but the GNU versions have added functionality that is sometimes useful. Note that this port will install these utilities with a 'g' prefix, for example gdiff, gdiff3, gcmp, but the texinfo documentation will refer to these utilities without the 'g' prefix.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/diffutils-3.8_1/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/diffutils-3.8_1/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/diffutils-3.8_1/GPLv3+
  4. bin/gcmp
  5. bin/gdiff
  6. bin/gdiff3
  7. bin/gsdiff
  8. share/man/man1/gcmp.1.gz
  9. share/man/man1/gdiff.1.gz
  10. share/man/man1/gdiff3.1.gz
  11. share/man/man1/gsdiff.1.gz
  12. share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  13. share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  14. share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  15. share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  16. share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  17. share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  18. share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  19. share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  20. share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  21. share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  22. share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  23. share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  24. share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  25. share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  26. share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  27. share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  28. share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  29. share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  30. share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  31. share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  32. share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  33. share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  34. share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  35. share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  36. share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  37. share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  38. share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  39. share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  40. share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  41. share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  42. share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  43. share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  44. share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  45. share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
  46. @owner
  47. @group
  48. @mode
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Dependency lines:
  • diffutils>0:textproc/diffutils
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/textproc/diffutils/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install textproc/diffutils
  • pkg install diffutils
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: diffutils
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1627869571 SHA256 (diffutils-3.8.tar.xz) = a6bdd7d1b31266d11c4f4de6c1b748d4607ab0231af5188fc2533d0ae2438fec SIZE (diffutils-3.8.tar.xz) = 1585120

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
diffutils
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest3.8_13.8_13.73.8_13.8_1-3.7-
FreeBSD:13:quarterly3.83.83.83.83.83.83.83.8
FreeBSD:14:latest3.8_13.8_13.83.8_13.8_13.8-3.8
FreeBSD:14:quarterly3.83.8-3.83.83.83.83.8
FreeBSD:15:latest3.8_13.8_1n/a3.8n/a3.83.83.8_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/a---
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 : devel/gettext-runtime
  2. msgfmt : devel/gettext-tools
Runtime dependencies:
  1. indexinfo : print/indexinfo
Library dependencies:
  1. libsigsegv.so : devel/libsigsegv
  2. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
This port is required by:
for Build
  1. devel/quilt
  2. devel/tla
  3. net/freeswitch

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. devel/baz*
  2. devel/bazaar*
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for Run
  1. devel/quilt
  2. devel/tla
  3. misc/mc
  4. sysutils/py-diffoscope

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. devel/baz*
  2. devel/bazaar*
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* - deleted ports are only shown under the This port is required by section. It was harder to do for the Required section. Perhaps later...

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for diffutils-3.8_1: NLS=on: Native Language Support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
textproc_diffutils
USES:
charsetfix cpe tar:xz gettext iconv
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/gnu/diffutils/
  2. ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/
  3. ftp://mirrors.rit.edu/gnu/diffutils/
  4. http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gnu/diffutils/
  5. http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/GNU/gnu/diffutils/
  6. http://mirror.navercorp.com/gnu/diffutils/
  7. https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/
  8. https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/diffutils/
  9. https://mirror.netcologne.de/gnu/diffutils/
  10. https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/diffutils/
  11. https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/gnu/gnu/diffutils/
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Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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3.8_1
23 Feb 2024 16:54:15
commit hash: 116278e314338da2320ffb9014372eb650610a15commit hash: 116278e314338da2320ffb9014372eb650610a15commit hash: 116278e314338da2320ffb9014372eb650610a15commit hash: 116278e314338da2320ffb9014372eb650610a15 files touched by this commit
Muhammad Moinur Rahman (bofh) search for other commits by this committer
textproc/diffutils: Moved man to share/man

Approved by:    portmgr (blanket)
07 Sep 2022 21:58:51
commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4 files touched by this commit
Stefan Eßer (se) search for other commits by this committer
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)
3.8
07 Sep 2022 21:10:59
commit hash: b7f05445c00f2625aa19b4154ebcbce5ed2daa52commit hash: b7f05445c00f2625aa19b4154ebcbce5ed2daa52commit hash: b7f05445c00f2625aa19b4154ebcbce5ed2daa52commit hash: b7f05445c00f2625aa19b4154ebcbce5ed2daa52 files touched by this commit
Stefan Eßer (se) search for other commits by this committer
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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3.8
20 Jul 2022 14:23:14
commit hash: 5cf7e35e8664e11393fedc7d89b4d09e0fcced9bcommit hash: 5cf7e35e8664e11393fedc7d89b4d09e0fcced9bcommit hash: 5cf7e35e8664e11393fedc7d89b4d09e0fcced9bcommit hash: 5cf7e35e8664e11393fedc7d89b4d09e0fcced9b files touched by this commit
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) search for other commits by this committer
textproc: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

  *  "Choe, Cheng-Dae" whitekid
  *  -
  *  <glewis@FreeBSD.org>
  *  <koshy@india.hp.com>
  *  Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Aaron Dalton <aaron@daltons.ca>
  *  Aaron Straup Cope
  *  Aaron Straup Cope <ascope@cpan.org>
  *  Ache
  *  Adam Herzog <adam@herzogdesigns.com>
  *  Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
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3.8
18 Mar 2022 13:23:53
commit hash: 6b2effb4d8b50f559213442f138ecd99418798c4commit hash: 6b2effb4d8b50f559213442f138ecd99418798c4commit hash: 6b2effb4d8b50f559213442f138ecd99418798c4commit hash: 6b2effb4d8b50f559213442f138ecd99418798c4 files touched by this commit
Bernhard Froehlich (decke) search for other commits by this committer
textproc/diffutils: Add CPE information

Approved by:	portmgr (blanket)
3.8
15 Oct 2021 08:35:28
commit hash: c87cdf264642a329edcab4c5ce3b7522ad0601accommit hash: c87cdf264642a329edcab4c5ce3b7522ad0601accommit hash: c87cdf264642a329edcab4c5ce3b7522ad0601accommit hash: c87cdf264642a329edcab4c5ce3b7522ad0601ac files touched by this commit
Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe) search for other commits by this committer
textproc/diffutils: update the port to version 3.8 and enable tests

PR:	257631
3.7
06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
commit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344eb files touched by this commit
Mathieu Arnold (mat) search for other commits by this committer
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
3.7
18 Feb 2020 21:02:51
Revision:526475Original commit files touched by this commit
robak search for other commits by this committer
textproc/diffutils: Assign maintainership to new volunteer

PR:		243351
Submitted by:	Aioanei Rares <schaiba@gmail.com>
Reviewed by:	Bartek Rutkowski <robak@FreeBSD.org>
Approved by:	portmgr blanket
3.7
04 Nov 2019 21:21:04
Revision:516744Original commit files touched by this commit
rene search for other commits by this committer
Returns johans's ports to the pool after safekeeping his commit bit.
3.7
15 Mar 2019 07:07:51
Revision:495772Original commit files touched by this commit
danfe search for other commits by this committer
- Update GNU diffutils to version 3.7
- Provide more elaborate COMMENT text

Approved by:	maintainer (johans: numerous timeouts on GNU tools)
3.6_1
10 Nov 2018 18:12:58
Revision:484628Original commit files touched by this commit
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Install texinfo files (GNU info) into ${PREFIX}/share/info

After a discussion on the mailing list on moving manpages to
${PREFIX}/share/man for consistency with base where it is
installed in usr/share/man, it appeared the same should happen
to GNU info files which were installed under share in base and
not in ports.

Now texinfo is not in base on any of the supported version of FreeBSD
it is possible to proceed to this move and it is easier to do than
the manpage change.

Other benefit than consistency are less patching: all build tools but
cmake are expecting info files to be under share/info and cmake (patched here)
was having an exception for BSD so the patch makes FreeBSD case less
specific for them

Bump revision of all impacted ports

PR:		232907
exp-run by:	antoine
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17816
3.6
14 Oct 2017 02:54:51
Revision:452041Original commit files touched by this commit
ygy search for other commits by this committer
textproc/diffutils: Fix typo in pkg-descr

PR:		221568
Reviewed by:	emaste
Approved by:	adamw, johans (maintainer timeout)
3.6
05 Jul 2017 21:07:40
Revision:445098Original commit files touched by this commit
johans search for other commits by this committer
Update to GNU diffutils 3.6
3.5
12 Sep 2016 20:34:01
Revision:421960Original commit files touched by this commit
johans search for other commits by this committer
Update to GNU diffutils 3.5 (bugfix release)
3.4
16 Aug 2016 11:00:26
Revision:420278Original commit files touched by this commit
johans search for other commits by this committer
Update to GNU diff 3.4
mostly bugfixes. new feature --color
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-diffutils/2016-08/msg00028.html
3.3
01 Apr 2016 14:25:18
Revision:412349Original commit files touched by this commit
mat search for other commits by this committer
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories r, s, t, and u.

With hat:	portmgr
Sponsored by:	Absolight
3.3
29 Jul 2014 21:07:40
Revision:363392Original commit files touched by this commit
adamw search for other commits by this committer
Convert a bunch of USE_XZ to USES=tar:xz.

Approved by:	portmgr (not really, but touches unstaged ports)
3.3
11 Jan 2014 20:04:41
Revision:339448Original commit files touched by this commit
johans search for other commits by this committer
Enable stage support + minor cleanups
3.3
20 Sep 2013 23:17:32
Revision:327773Original commit files touched by this commit
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
textproc)
3.3
05 May 2013 07:20:28
Revision:317399Original commit files touched by this commit
johans search for other commits by this committer
Restore USES=gettext that got reverted accidentally

Submitted by:	jgh
3.3
04 May 2013 18:07:20
Revision:317330Original commit files touched by this commit
johans search for other commits by this committer
- Update diffutils to 3.3
- Add patch to fix install
3.2
26 Apr 2013 10:44:29
Revision:316596Original commit files touched by this commit
ak search for other commits by this committer
- Convert USE_GETTEXT to USES (part 4)

Approved by:	portmgr (bapt)
3.2
18 Mar 2013 11:40:04
Revision:314556Original commit files touched by this commit
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Fix a long standing bug of lib/charset.alias being overwritten, modified, and
badly tracked by ports.

Make lib/charset.alias a file only provided by converters/libiconv
Create a new USES: charsetfix, that will modify in post patch the Makefile.in to
prevent a port from modifying/overwritting the charset.alias file during make
install.
Prevent devel/gettext from installing that files.
Fix a couple of ports that actually touch charset.alias during the build phase.

Based on a patch by ale
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2012-October/027747.html)

Approved by:	kwm (gnome)
Exp-run by:	miwi
3.2
27 Jun 2012 19:52:13
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johans search for other commits by this committer
Convert to new options framework
3.2
03 Sep 2011 10:28:37
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johans search for other commits by this committer
Update diffutils to 3.2
3.1
17 Aug 2011 13:34:40
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johans search for other commits by this committer
Update GNU diffutils to 3.1
3.0_2
03 Jul 2011 14:40:25
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ohauer search for other commits by this committer
-remove MD5
3.0_2
23 Jun 2011 03:03:23
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danfe search for other commits by this committer
Kill EOL whitespace.
3.0_2
31 May 2010 02:01:56
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ade search for other commits by this committer
Bounce PORTREVISION for gettext-related ports.  Have fun, ya'll.
3.0_1
27 May 2010 20:03:24
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johans search for other commits by this committer
Chase devel/libsigsegv shlib bump
3.0
04 May 2010 19:39:40
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johans search for other commits by this committer
Update to GNU diffutils 3.0
2.9
23 Feb 2010 18:07:14
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johans search for other commits by this committer
Update my mail address to @FreeBSD.org

Feature safe:   yes
2.9
13 Feb 2010 15:59:37
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johans search for other commits by this committer
- Update to 2.9
- Add libsigsegv and NLS support
- Remove timestamp precision patch (now supported by default)
- Grab maintainership
2.8.1_1
13 May 2006 04:24:52
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
Remove USE_REINPLACE from categories starting with T
2.8.1_1
25 Nov 2005 18:40:57
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pav search for other commits by this committer
- Add SHA256
2.8.1_1
22 Oct 2005 17:08:14
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ehaupt search for other commits by this committer
- provide optional nano second timestamp precision
- bump PORTREVISION
- nuke pkg-plist
- add pkg-message (inform about vfs.timestamp_precision)

PR:             87702
Submitted by:   Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr>
2.8.1
29 Jan 2004 16:13:06
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trevor search for other commits by this committer
SIZEify.
2.8.1
21 Dec 2003 00:22:53
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sergei search for other commits by this committer
- Use canonical form (ports@FreeBSD.org) in MAINTAINER line
2.8.1
09 Oct 2003 00:26:03
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
Update textproc/diffutils

        GNU diffutils 2.7 has some serious bugs wrt file ending with no
        end of lines.

PR:             ports/57189
Submitted by:   Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Approved by:    Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
2.7
21 Feb 2003 13:42:50
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knu search for other commits by this committer
De-pkg-comment.
2.7
04 Nov 2002 05:46:38
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
PERL -> REINPLACE
And some ports have USE_PERL5=yes now.
17 Sep 2001 07:27:57
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will search for other commits by this committer
Add diffutils 2.7, the GNU diff utilities.    

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