.TH DELTUP 1 "12 April 2003"
.SH NAME
deltup \- Update a tarballed package
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B deltup -m[fvej] [bgz #] [-d 
.I repository
.B ]
.I package1 package2 patchfile
#make patch

.B deltup -p[fvir] [-d
.I repository
.B ]
.I <patchfiles>
#apply patch


.SH DESCRIPTION
Makes and applies patches to tarballed packages.  edelta is an alias which
passes -d <portage distfiles dir> to deltup.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B -f
Force overwrite if output file already exists
.TP 
.B -v
Verbose mode
.TP
.B -e
Ensure md5sum is correct.  This option is necessary for packages compressed
with versions of bzip2 previous to 1.0.0.
.TP
.B -j
Use the new bdelta program for finding the delta.  User must have the bdelta
package installed.
.TP
.B -b, -g, -z
Filter patch through bzip2 or gzip, or use zlib for compression\n");
.TP
.B -i
Show what files would be patched without performing any actions.
.TP
.B -r
Apply series of patches to one package without outputting the packages in
between.
.TP
.B -d
Find and output packages in directory
.I repository
.SH ENVIORNMENT
.TP
.B TMPDIR
Directory to output temporary files.  If not defined then /tmp is used.
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
.B Make bzip2'd Gentoo package patch:
edelta -m -b 9 
.I OldPackage
.I NewPackage
.I PatchFile
.TP
.B Apply the patch:
edelta -p
.I PatchFile
.TP
.B Make patch of OpenOffice 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 (which was compressed with an old verison of bzip2).
edelta -me -b 9 
.I OOo_1.0.2_source.tar.bz2
.I OOo_1.0.3_source.tar.bz2
.I OO.dtu.bz2
.TP