diffutils

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/diffutils as a depdendency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/diffutils)

Runtime Depdendency

pkg_deps=(core/diffutils)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/diffutils --binlink

will add the following binaries to the PATH:

• cmp
• diff
• diff3
• sdiff

$ hab pkg install core/diffutils --binlink
» Installing core/diffutils
☁ Determining latest version of core/diffutils in the 'stable' channel
☛ Verifying core/diffutils/3.7/20200306000423
→ Using core/glibc/2.29/20200305172459
→ Using core/linux-headers/4.19.62/20200305172241
✓ Installed core/diffutils/3.7/20200306000423
★ Install of core/diffutils/3.7/20200306000423 complete with 1 new packages installed.
» Binlinking cmp from core/diffutils/3.7/20200306000423 into /bin
★ Binlinked cmp from core/diffutils/3.7/20200306000423 to /bin/cmp
» Binlinking diff from core/diffutils/3.7/20200306000423 into /bin
★ Binlinked diff from core/diffutils/3.7/20200306000423 to /bin/diff
» Binlinking diff3 from core/diffutils/3.7/20200306000423 into /bin
★ Binlinked diff3 from core/diffutils/3.7/20200306000423 to /bin/diff3
» Binlinking sdiff from core/diffutils/3.7/20200306000423 into /bin
★ Binlinked sdiff from core/diffutils/3.7/20200306000423 to /bin/sdiff

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal. For example:

/bin/diff --help or diff --help

[54][default:/src:0]# diff --help
Usage: diff [OPTION]... FILES
Compare FILES line by line.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
      --normal                  output a normal diff (the default)
  -q, --brief                   report only when files differ
  -s, --report-identical-files  report when two files are the same
  -c, -C NUM, --context[=NUM]   output NUM (default 3) lines of copied context
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