DELTUP 1 "24 March 2007"
NAME
deltup - Update a tarballed package
SYNOPSIS
deltup -m[fvej] [bg #] [[-dD] repository ] package1 package2 patchfile #make patch deltup -p[fvir] [[-dD] repository ] <patchfiles> #apply patches
DESCRIPTION
Makes and applies patches to tarballed packages. edelta is an alias which passes -d <portage distfiles dir> to deltup.
OPTIONS

-f Force overwrite if output file already exists

-v Verbose mode

-e This special option tells deltup to test the patch against all available compressors and write info about which ones work into the patch file

-j Use bdelta instead of xdelta when creating the patch. This version of Deltup has built-in support for applying bdelta patches, which makes installing xdelta unnecessary.

-b, -g Filter patch through bzip2 or gzip

-i Show what files would be patched without performing any actions.

-r Apply series of patches to one package without outputting the packages in between.

-d Output packages to directory repository

-d Find packages to upgrade in directory repository

ENVIORNMENT

TMPDIR Directory to output temporary files. If not defined then /tmp is used.

EXAMPLES

Make bzip2'd Gentoo package patch: edelta -m -b 9 OldPackage NewPackage PatchFile

Apply the patch: edelta -p PatchFile

Make verified patch with the -e option: edelta -me -b 9 Package-v1.tar.bz2 Package-v2.tar.bz2 Package_Patch.dtu