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delta specified on the command line. Multiple packages and/or delta to remove
can be specified on the command line.
+A package database is a tar file, optionally compressed. Valid extensions are
+``.db'' or ``.files'' followed by an archive extension of ``.tar'',
+``.tar.gz'', ``.tar.bz2'', or ``.tar.xz''. The file does not need to exist, but
+all parent directories must exist.
+
Common Options
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