filetraq for Debian
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[ Joost van Baal-Ilić, Aug 2018 ]

Since 2018 this is a Debian native package, and Debian is upstream.  I've
contacted upstream Jeremy Weatherford on this:

From: Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb@debian.org>
To: Jeremy Weatherford
Subject: filetraq releases, filetraq in Debian
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 12:15:04 +0200
Message-ID: <20180827101504.GO24057@beskar.mdcc.cx>

Hi Jeremy Weatherford, [...] Are you still interested in maintaining and
hosting the filetraq code?  [...]
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/filetraq/blob/master/debian/patches/01_filetraq.patch
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/filetraq/blob/master/debian/patches/02_filetraq.conf.patch
[...] If you're no longer interested in the filetraq code, and no new release
is expected from you anymore, I'd be interested in hearing that.  Thanks a lot
for sharing filetraq [...] Joost

Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:25:31 -0400
From: Jeremy Weatherford
To: Joost van Baal-Ilić
Subject: Re: filetraq releases, filetraq in Debian
Message-ID: <CAFV3HcMHfd-gpD6H-g=gmFgLx-+o_WoOWxUbVPVMZTvcNdSV=g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Joost, [...] Feel free to keep developing it or do anything you like with
the code - I haven't done anything with it in 18 years [...] Thanks, Jeremy



[ Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@debian.org>, Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:11:41 +0100 ]

To use the cronjob create an /etc/filetraq.conf file, there's an example on
'/usr/share/doc/filetraq/filetraq.conf'.

The script has been modified to accept a couple of configuration options;
'diffopts' and 'difforder'. The first option lets the user choose the diff
options she likes (see man diff) and the second one lets the user choose the
order of the file comparisons, 'newold' or 'oldnew' (default is 'newold').

To set the options you have to create the file '/etc/default/filetraq' and
write the options with shell syntax, i.e.:

  diffopts="-u -b"
  difforder="oldnew"

