01-27-2009
Different operating systems / derivatives have different software package management systems.
rpm is the Red Hat Package manager which is widely spread. It's also used additionally on other Linux'es, AIX, etc.
pkg is afaik the SUN software package management tool.
For debian there are different. alien for installing RPMs, dpkg is down below all of them and on top are some like apt, aptitude and synaptic for example.
So there is not usually the question "which is better", since 1st there is the question, which OS do I use and so which is package manager is available.
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applydeltarpm
APPLYDELTARPM(8) System Manager's Manual APPLYDELTARPM(8)
NAME
applydeltarpm - reconstruct an rpm from a deltarpm
SYNOPSIS
applydeltarpm [-v] [-p] [-r oldrpm] deltarpm newrpm
applydeltarpm -c|-C deltarpm
applydeltarpm [-c|-C] -s sequence
applydeltarpm -i deltarpm
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
-r option, if no rpm name is provided on-disk data is used. You can use -p to make applydeltarpm print the percentage of completion, or -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 -c option
selects full (i.e. slow) on-disk checking, whereas -C only checks if the filesizes have not changed.
Instead of a full deltarpm a sequence id can be given with the -s 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 -i option.
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.
SEE ALSO
makedeltarpm(8), rpm(8)
AUTHOR
Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>
Feb 2005 APPLYDELTARPM(8)