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.\" man page for applydeltarpm
.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>
.\" See LICENSE.BSD for license
.TH APPLYDELTARPM 8 "Feb 2005"
.SH NAME
applydeltarpm \- reconstruct an rpm from a deltarpm

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B applydeltarpm
.RB [ -v ]
.RB [ -p ]
.RB [ -r
.IR oldrpm ]
.I deltarpm
.I newrpm
.br
.B applydeltarpm
.BR -c | -C
.I deltarpm
.br
.B applydeltarpm
.RB [ -c | -C ]
.B -s
.I sequence
.br
.B applydeltarpm
.BR -i
.I deltarpm

.SH DESCRIPTION
applydeltarpm applies a binary delta to either an old rpm or to
on-disk data to re-create a new rpm. The old rpm can be specified
with the
.B -r
option, if no rpm name is provided on-disk data is used. You
can use
.B -p
to make applydeltarpm print the percentage of completion, or
.B -v
to make it more verbose about its operation.

The second an third form can be used to check if the reconstruction
is possible. It may fail if the on-disk data got changed
(deltarpms are created in a way that config file changes do not
matter) or the deltarpm does not match the rpm the delta was generated
with. The
.B -c
option selects full (i.e. slow) on-disk checking, whereas
.B -C
only checks if the filesizes have not changed.

Instead of a full deltarpm a sequence id can be given with the
.B -s
.I sequence
option. Such an id contains all the information that is needed to
do reconstruction checking.

Finally information about a deltarpm can be printed with
the
.B -i
option.

.SH MEMORY CONSIDERATIONS
applydeltarpm was written to work on systems with limited memory.
It uses a paging algorithm to keep the size of in-core data low
and not bring the system in an out-of-memory situation.

.SH EXIT STATUS
applydeltarpm returns 0 if the rpm could be recreated or the
checking succeeded, it returns 1 and prints an error message
to stderr if something failed.

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR makedeltarpm (8),
.BR rpm (8)

.SH AUTHOR
Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>