Synopsis
pkgdelta [-q] <package1> <package2>
Description
pkgdelta is used to create package delta files between two versions of the same package. These files are essentially binary patches. pacman(8) can download deltas instead of full package upgrades, and use them with the previous versions of packages (in the package cache) to synthesize the upgraded version of the packages. This likely reduces download sizes for upgrades significantly.
pkgdelta requires xdelta3(1) to do its job.
Options
- -q, --quiet
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Be quiet. Do not output anything but warnings and errors.
Examples
$ pkgdelta libreoffice-3.3.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz libreoffice-3.3.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
See Also
See the pacman website at http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/ for current information on pacman and its related tools.
Bugs
Bugs? You must be kidding, there are no bugs in this software. But if we happen to be wrong, send us an email with as much detail as possible to pacman-dev@archlinux.org.
Authors
Current maintainers:
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Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Past major contributors:
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Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
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Aurelien Foret <aurelien@archlinux.org>
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Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org>
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Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>
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Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>
For additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman.git repository.