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fdupes is a program for identifying duplicate files residing within specified directories
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fdupes version confusion #4

Open btbouwens opened 9 years ago

btbouwens commented 9 years ago

I found your fdupes program on https://rtcamp.com/tutorials/linux/fdupes-duplicate-hardlinks/ , then I saw that Fedora already has this, as fdupes-1.51-8.fc22.x86_64 which I installed. But: it doesn't work, it doesn't support the -L flag.

When I check out https://github.com/tobiasschulz/fdupes I get version 1.50-PR2 but this does support the -L flag, and there are no tags or releases defined whatsoever.

So assuming this is the real and final program, it would be good to set the VERSION to 1.52, tag it, and release it. Then at least it's clear which version is older/newer.

setop commented 6 years ago

Same here. My debian jessie proposes a package build form sources locates at http://code.google.com/p/fdupes/. It does not have "-L" option and answers 1.51, when asked for the version. But when I built from github master branch, I get "-L" option and version 1.50-PR2. Looking into "debian" folder I see that some patch are there, like "50_bts284274_hardlinkreplace.dpatch" but it has not been applied on my distro (Maintainer: Sandro Tosi morph@debian.org). That's confusing.

setop commented 6 years ago

Actually, the real repository of fdupes seems to be this one : https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes