bsdsfv mit Homebrew, MacPorts installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• bsdsfv

Projektgeschichte

The project published source tarballs on SourceForge from at least June 2000 through November 2003. The README in the 1.18 source archive says this version was based on pdsfv by hoopy, with additional features, performance tuning, and cleanup.

BSDSFV targeted the SFV workflow common in FTP and release-distribution scenes: create SFV files, verify single files or whole releases, add banners, and interoperate with other SFV tools including an SFVNIX compatibility mode.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The project predates modern forge and package registry conventions, but it survived in Unix package managers as a compact checksum utility. The Homebrew input also records MacPorts packaging, which is typical for old C command-line tools that remained useful without active feature churn.

Wie es verwendet wird

BSDSFV is used from the shell to generate or verify SFV files, especially when checking that a release directory or downloaded file set matches expected CRC32 checksums. The official page also calls out glFTPd integration and count-missing-files support for race scripts.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package-history nerds, BSDSFV is a time capsule of early-2000s file-verification culture: tiny C source, SourceForge distribution, SFV interoperability, and FTP-site automation all in one formula-sized package.

Zeitleiste

• 2000: SourceForge file feed lists bsdsfv-1.0.0.tar.gz.
• 2001: Version 1.0.12 was published on SourceForge.
• 2002: README in the source archive records the pdsfv lineage.
• 2003: Version 1.18 was published on SourceForge.

Related projects

• pdsfv is named in the BSDSFV README as the codebase BSDSFV was based on.
• SFVNIX is named by the official page as a compatibility target for SFV files created by BSDSFV.
• glFTPd is named by the official page as an integration target for site automation.

Quellen

• Official homepage describes SFV creation, verification, SFVNIX compatibility, and glFTPd support: https://bsdsfv.sourceforge.net/
• Package-manager adoption from source_facts.package-manager.
• SourceForge RSS feed lists releases from 1.0.0 in 2000 through 1.18 in 2003: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsdsfv/rss?path=/
• The 1.18 source README says BSDSFV was based on pdsfv by hoopy: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsdsfv/files/bsdsfv/1.18/bsdsfv-1.18.tar.gz/download