rpm's zlib and deltarpms

Michael Schroeder mls at suse.de
Fri May 6 20:45:09 UTC 2005


On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:26:44PM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> I just found out that the rsync patch applied to rpm's internal
> zlib library makes it produce zlib-incompatible payloads. That is,
> a decompress and recompress with normal zlib doesn't produce the
> same output. Normally this doesn't do much harm, but with deltarpms
> I need to reconstruct the exact compressed payload. So at the
> moment deltarpms won't work with FC4 rpms.

Status update: there's now a new version that automatically
detects the rsyncable gzip compression. You can get it via

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/deltarpm/deltarpm-2.3.tar.bz2

Enjoy,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls at suse.de
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