PKGDELTA(8) Pacman Manual PKGDELTA(8)NAMEpkgdelta - package delta generation utility
SYNOPSISpkgdelta [options] <package1> <package2>
DESCRIPTIONpkgdelta 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--max-delta-size <ratio>
Only create delta files if the delta is smaller than ratio *
package_size. Possible values: 0.0 to 2.0. Recommended values: 0.2
to 0.9. Default value: 0.7
--min-pkg-size <size>
Minimal size of the package file in bytes to be considered for
delta creation. Default value: 1048576 bytes = 1MiB. This may be
any absolute size in bytes, or a human readable value such as 4 MiB
or 3.5MB.
-q, --quiet
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 ALSOpacman(8), xdelta3(1)
See the pacman website at https://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:
· Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
· Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
· Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Past major contributors:
· Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
· Aurelien Foret <aurelien@archlinux.org>
· Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org>
· Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>
· Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>
For additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman.git
repository.
Pacman 4.1.2 2013-06-18 PKGDELTA(8)