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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2012-08-22 17:24:38 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2012-08-22 23:11:31 +0200
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distro: Add GNU Diffutils.
* distro/base.scm (diffutils): New variable.
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@@ -178,6 +178,48 @@ files (as archives).")
(license "GPLv3+")
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/")))
+(define-public diffutils
+ (package
+ (name "diffutils")
+ (version "3.2")
+ (source (origin
+ (method http-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-"
+ version ".tar.xz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "0jci0wv68025xd0s0rq4s5qxpx56dd9d730lka63qpzk1rfvfkxb"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (description "Programs to find differences among text files")
+ (long-description
+ "GNU Diffutils is a package of several programs related to finding
+differences between files.
+
+Computer users often find occasion to ask how two files differ. Perhaps one
+file is a newer version of the other file. Or maybe the two files started out
+as identical copies but were changed by different people.
+
+You can use the diff command to show differences between two files, or each
+corresponding file in two directories. diff outputs differences between files
+line by line in any of several formats, selectable by command line
+options. This set of differences is often called a ‘diff’ or ‘patch’. For
+files that are identical, diff normally produces no output; for
+binary (non-text) files, diff normally reports only that they are different.
+
+You can use the cmp command to show the offsets and line numbers where two
+files differ. cmp can also show all the characters that differ between the
+two files, side by side.
+
+You can use the diff3 command to show differences among three files. When two
+people have made independent changes to a common original, diff3 can report
+the differences between the original and the two changed versions, and can
+produce a merged file that contains both persons' changes together with
+warnings about conflicts.
+
+You can use the sdiff command to merge two files interactively.")
+ (license "GPLv3+")
+ (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/")))
+
(define-public findutils
(package
(name "findutils")