.TH DEBPATCH "1" "aug 2009" "debpatch" "User Commands" .SH NAME debpatch \- Applies a patch to recreate a debian package. .SH SYNOPSIS .B debpatch [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIDELTA \fIFROMFILE\fR \fITOFILE\fR .br .B debpatch [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIDELTA \fI/\fR \fITOFILE\fR .br .B debpatch \fB\-\-info\fR \fIPATCH\fR .SH DESCRIPTION This program is designed to apply a patch (DELTA) to a Debian package (FROMFILE) and create the Debian package (TOFILE). If the Debian package (FROMFILE) was installed in the host system and the .deb file is not available, then the argument (FROMFILE) may be substituted by the keyword / : then debpatch will get the needed data from the host filesystem. .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-\-info\fR \fIPATCH Write info on \fIPATCH .TP \fB\-\-no\-md5 do not verify MD5 info. .TP \fB\-v verbose (can be added multiple times). .TP \fB\-d print full traceback on Python errors; save useful info in temporary files in case that a delta fails. .TP \fB\-k keep temporary files (use for debugging). .TP \fB\-\-format \fIFORMAT format of recreated debs. FORMAT=deb is the usual, FORMAT=unzipped means that the data.tar part is not compressed, (and this may save some time) .TP .B \-A \--accept-unsigned accept unsigned deltas. .TP .BI \--gpg-home specify a different home for GnuPG, default for root is .I /etc/debdelta/gnupg while for other users is unset. See .I --homedir in .BR gpg(1) for details. .SH EXAMPLES See .BR debdelta (1) .SH SECURITY See .BR debdelta (1) .SH EXIT STATUS See .BR debdelta (1) .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to . .SH AUTHORS Debpatch was written and is copyright \(co 2006-09 Andrea Mennucci. .br This man page was written by Jegou Pierre-yves . .SH COPYING This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License . There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR debdelta-upgrade (1), .BR debdelta (1), .BR /usr/share/doc/debdelta/README .