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.TH PKGDIFF 8 "11 Apr 2018" "Slackware Version 15.0
.SH NAME
pkgdiff \- compare the file contents of two packages.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pkgdiff
[
.B \--help
]
[
.B \-c
]
[
.B \-a
]
.BI packagename
.BI packagename2
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B pkgdiff
Displays the differences in the files contained in two packages. This works with
plain .tar, Slackware packages (.tgz, .tbz, .tlz, .txz), .rpm, and .deb. By default,
the results will be displayed in a tree-style unified diff format.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \--help
Display help for using the pkgdiff utility.
.TP
.B \-c
Colorize the tree-style output a-la DIR_COLORS. If piping to a pager such as
less, you'll need to enable displaying raw data. For example:
.P
pkgdiff -c package-1.0-i586-1.txz package-2.0-i586-1.txz | less -r
.TP
.B \-a
Instead of a tree-style output format, generate a simple unified diff of the
package file lists.
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
.B Compare two packages and pipe the result to less:
.P
pkgdiff package-1.0-i586-1.txz package-2.0-i586-1.txz | less
.SH AUTHOR
Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR makepkg(8),
.BR removepkg(8),
.BR explodepkg(8),
.BR pkgtool(8), 
.BR upgradepkg(8)