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

Makes and applies patches to tarballed packages. edelta is an alias which passes -d <portage distfiles dir> to deltup.

-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

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

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