# cfv mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für cfv in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:cfv
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cfv
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install cfv
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: security/cfv/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#cfv
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cf/cfv/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:cfv
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cfv>
- **Version:** 3.2.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Test and create various files (e.g., .sfv, .csv, .crc., .torrent)
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/cfv-project/cfv>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/cfv-project/cfv>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://github.com/cfv-project/cfv/blob/python3/README.md>
- **Lizenz:** GPL-2.0-or-later
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/90/e2/4982f414f04c47c5344739ecc6dfd70fe75139d0672e0b080929aea309f9/cfv-3.2.0.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- cfv (cli)
- cfv (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- python@3.14

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf all

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-08
- Manager-Version: 3.2.0
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/cfv-project/cfv
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- Info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

cfv is a command-line file verification utility for creating and checking checksum files used around archives, releases, and file-sharing workflows.

### Projektgeschichte

The maintained cfv project describes itself as a friendly fork of Matthew Mueller's original cfv, maintained by Lisa Gnedt. Its manual page still carries the older utility's shape: a single command for testing and creating many checksum-file formats.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The project documents distribution through PyPI and mentions operating-system packaging paths such as Arch Linux, FreeBSD ports, and NixOS. The input package facts also show package-manager entries for Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix.

### Wie es verwendet wird

cfv is used to verify that files match checksum manifests and to create manifests in formats including SFV, CSV, CRC, MD5, SHA-family sums, BLAKE3 b3sum files, BitTorrent metainfo files, and test-only PAR/PAR2 files.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package and archive maintainers, cfv is interesting because it covers several checksum dialects in one small CLI, including formats that ordinary coreutils checksum commands do not create or parse.

### Zeitleiste

- 2005: The cfv man page was dated 05 Feb 2005.
- Python 3 era: The cfv-project fork documents Python >= 3.7 support and points Python 2 users to a separate branch.

### Related projects

- The README compares cfv with GNU coreutils checksum commands, cksfv, RHash, aria2c, bsdsfv, pure-sfv, and bcfv.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/cfv-project/cfv>
- <https://github.com/cfv-project/cfv>
- <https://github.com/cfv-project/cfv/blob/python3/README.md>
- <https://github.com/cfv-project/cfv/blob/python3/cfv.1>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/cfv.json>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.cfvrc, ~/_cfvrc
## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** cfv
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - cfv: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cf/cfv/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - cfv: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: security/cfv/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Verwandte Links

- [Cloud CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/cloud-clis/) - Belongs to a cloud or infrastructure command family.
- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [cfn-format](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cfn-format/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code.
- [cfnctl](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cfnctl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code.
- [cfn-flip](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cfn-flip/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation.
- [cloudformation-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cloudformation-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code.
- [eksctl](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/eksctl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation.
- [basti](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/basti/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure.
- [cf2tf](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cf2tf/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code.
- [e1s](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/e1s/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cfv.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/cfv.yml)


## Quellen

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
