Package freedup: Information
Source package: freedup
Version: 1.6-alt1
Build time: May 23, 2019, 12:06 AM
Category: File tools
Report package bugHome page: http://freedup.org/
License: GPL
Summary: Links substantially identical, duplicate files to save file system space
Description:
Freedup eliminates duplicate files by linking them, and thus reduces the amount of used disk space within one or more file systems. By default, hardlinks are used on a single device, symbolic links when the devices differ. A set of options allows you to modify the methods of file comparison, the hash functions, the linking behavior, and the reporting style. You may use batch or interactive mode. Freedup usually only considers identical files, but when comparing audio or graphics files, you may elect to ignore the tags. Multimedia files often are a good target for deduplication.
Maintainer: Ildar Mulyukov
Last changed
July 31, 2011 Ildar Mulyukov 1.6-alt1
- initial build for ALT Linux Sisyphus
Feb. 4, 2011 devel (AN) <AN@freedup.org>
- Bugfixes in version 1.6-2 + replaced softlink to symharden.c
Jan. 11, 2011 devel (AN) <AN@freedup.org>
- Changes to version 1.6-1 + signal handler catches CTRL-C to free duplicates discovered so far + added if-defines to avoid double parsing of *.h files + removed inline directive [due to compile errors by request of Andres Meyer] - Enhancement in version 1.6-1 + added listener interface + added new platform makefile for Apple Mac Version 10.6.0 i386 [tested] + catch filesystem errors (e.g. /sys) and print warnings instead of assertions + added (sp)lint rule for linux + added symharden tool to convert softlinks into hardlinks whereever possible - Bugfixes in version 1.6-1 + added missing #ifdef HASHSUM statements [notified by Linc Davis] + using include of <sys/stat.h> instead of <linux/stat.h> [by Linc Davis] + added fclose() to mp4.c and checking all fclose()/fseek() result codes + linted mp3.c, mp4.c mpc.c, auto.c, ogg.c, jpg.c and my.c + partially linted freedup.c (e.g. splint does not fail anymore) + moved filesize variables in "extra" functions from size_t=int to ulong + incorporated patch to avoid segfaults [by Charles Duppy] - Known Bug in 1.6-1 + Apple Mac version does not link different ownerships (yet reason unclear)