Debian Diff Format (Debiff)
Here you can find all neccessary files for the Debian Diff Format (debiff). The
Debiff format allows you to save only the changes between two revisions of the same
deb archive. This will allow you to save a lot of bandwidth when you update your
debian installation frequently as most debiff files only have a fraction of the
deb file size.
- debiff.txt - description of the debiff file format
- dpkg-deb.patch - patch for dpkg 1.7.2 that adds
two new options to the dpkg-deb utility. It allows you to create a deb file
from the control.tar and data.tar, and to get the control.tar from an existing
debian archive (last change: Dec 05, added descriptions to man page)
- debiff.pl - Perl script to create a debiff from two
debina archives. Requires the dpkg-deb patch. (simple hack, for testing only)
- undebiff.pl - Creates a new debian archive from an old
deb file and a debiff file. Requires the dpkg-deb patch. (simple hack,
for testing only)
- makedebiffs.pl - a Perl script that creates
debiffs for all debs in a list of directories
Tim Jansen
Last modified: Thu Dec 7 10:21:28 CET 2000