How to create delta of eopkg.

Abhinav1217

For personal use, I have made packaging scripts for few 3rd party apps, to make eopkg. Now I want to learn how to make delta packages for updates.

Is it possible to install delta updates from local source?

While exploring github, I have seen some people making their own repo source, that could be added to eopkg. Example sidbelbase repo .

Is there a wiki or documentation that could teach me to concepts, for hosting similar repo somewhere (for personal use).

lf-araujo

Abhinav1217 I wanted to learn how to create packages, are instructions straightforward enough? Also, share your packages somewhere, perhaps they are useful for someone else too!

Staudey

You can use eopkg delta for that:

λ eopkg help delta
delta (dt): Creates delta packages

Usages: delta oldpackage1 oldpackage2 ...  newpackage
        delta -t newpackage oldpackage1 oldpackage2 ...

Delta command finds the changed files between the given
packages by comparing the sha1sum of files and creates
a delta package with the changed files.


Options:
 --version                    : show program's version number and exit
 -h [--help]                  : show this help message and exit

 delta options:
  -t [--newest-package] arg   : Use arg as the new package and treat other
                                arguments as old packages.
  -O [--output-dir] arg       : Output directory for produced packages.
  -F [--package-format] arg   : Create the binary package using the given
                                format. Use '-F help' to see a list of supported
                                formats.

Personally I haven't tried using local delta packages (only played with them when I was trying to debug an issue).
We don't really have documentation for hosting your own repo (apart from the Local Repository), because there never was a plan to support alternative repositories (AFAIK).