fdupes: switch to fdupes-jody patch set

This adds a lot of useful features implemented in a reasonable way (unlike
debian patches).

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/fdupes/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/fdupes/default.nix
index 64a45b975b0f6..0ab97a7e6715f 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/fdupes/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/fdupes/default.nix
@@ -1,24 +1,27 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+{stdenv, fetchFromGitHub}:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "fdupes-1.51";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes/archive/fdupes-1.51.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "11j96vxl9vg3jsnxqxskrv3gad6dh7hz2zpyc8n31xzyxka1c7kn";
-  };
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "fdupes-20150902";
 
-  # workaround: otherwise make install fails (should be fixed in trunk)
-  preInstall = "mkdir -p $out/bin $out/man/man1";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "jbruchon";
+    repo  = "fdupes-jody";
+    rev   = "414b1fd64c0a739d4c52228eb72487782855b939";
+    sha256 = "1q6jcj79pljm1f24fqgk8x53xz2x0p1986znw75iljxqyzbvw0ap";
+  };
 
   makeFlags = "PREFIX=\${out}";
 
   meta = {
     description = "Identifies duplicate files residing within specified directories";
     longDescription = ''
-      FDUPES uses md5sums and then a byte by byte comparison to finde duplicate
-      files within a set of directories.
+      FDUPES compares inodes' stats, hash sums, and byte by byte file
+      contents to find duplicate files within a set of directories and
+      then applies various actions to those sets, e.g.:
+      * remove some of the duplicates,
+      * turn all the files in a set into hardlinks.
     '';
-    homepage = http://code.google.com/p/fdupes/;
+    homepage = src.meta.homepage;
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
     maintainers = [