2 Jigsaw Download (jigdo)
3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5 See the doc/ directory for documentation - start with the HOWTO
6 for an introduction to jigdo.
8 Debian CD images via jigdo: <https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/>
9 Current Jigdo homepage: <https://www.einval.com/~steve/software/jigdo/>
10 Current maintainer: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
12 Original Jigsaw Download homepage: <http://atterer.org/jigdo/>
13 Originally written by Richard Atterer: <richard@atterer.org>
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17 To build the programs, execute:
20 (If no file named "configure" is present in this directory, you have
21 downloaded a jigdo git snapshot. Have a look at the "bootstrapping"
22 section in doc/Hacking.txt.)
24 After a successful build, you can install the program (by default into
29 To build Debian packages (.deb) from the sources, execute:
32 To build an RPM package (.rpm) from the sources, execute:
33 rpmbuild -ta jigdo-x.y.z.tar.bz2
35 To build a .tar.bz2 with docs and statically linked binaries, execute:
36 ./configure && make bindist
38 Apart from the usual options (see "./configure --help"), the configure
39 script also recognizes the following options:
40 --without-libdb Don't use libdb3 (it's necessary for jigdo-file's cache)
41 --with-gui Build the jigdo GTK+ GUI application [auto]
42 --with-uint64=TYPE Specify unsigned type of at least 64 bits [auto]
43 (Replace spaces with underscores in TYPE)
44 --disable-nls Disable multi-language support
45 --enable-debug Compile in lots of additional debugging code
46 --disable-libwww-hacks Don't compile fixed versions of some libwww
47 code (Try this if you see link errors/crashes)
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53 Richard Atterer was the main jigdo author.
56 - Paul Bolle made the jigdo.spec (based on an earlier version by Alexander
58 - Peter Jay Salzman <p dirac.org> maintains the Debian jigdo mini HOWTO
59 - Jochen Hepp <jochen.hepp gmx.de>: jigdo-file patches
60 - Anne Bezemer <J.A.Bezemer opensourcepartners.nl>:
61 Some code snippets in the jigdo-lite script
62 - Steve McIntyre took over maintenance after Richard, and added:
63 New v2 format using SHA256
66 jigdo uses some code written by other people:
68 - Free Software Foundation, Inc.:
69 Library routines. [Files: glibc-*]
70 - James Henstdridge <james at daa.com.au>:
71 Code for integration of glib and libwww. [Files: glibwww-*]
72 - Damon Chaplin <damon at helixcode.com> and
73 Martijn van Beers <martijn at earthling.net>:
74 Support code for the GUI, generated by Glade. [File: gtk-support.cc]
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78 Copyright (C) 2001-2010 | richard@
79 Richard Atterer | atterer.org
80 Copyright (C) 2016-2021 Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
83 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
84 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as
85 published by the Free Software Foundation.
87 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
88 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
89 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
90 General Public License for more details.
92 In addition, as a special exception, the author gives permission to
93 link the jigdo code with the OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or
94 with modified versions of it that use the same license as the
95 "OpenSSL" library), and to distribute the linked executables. You
96 must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of
97 the code used other than "OpenSSL". If you modify any jigdo source
98 file, you may extend this exception to your version of the file, but
99 you are not obliged to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete
100 this exception statement from your version.
102 Please note: The copyright notice in the file COPYING only applies to
103 the text of the GNU General Public License; the copyright of the
104 individual source files is as specified at the top of each file and
105 above. Also note that the code is licensed under GPL _version_2_ and
106 no other version. Special licensing for my (RA's) code is available on