status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 20:46:50 UTC 2009


On 09/30/2009 11:34 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On 09/30/2009 10:43 AM, Michael Schroeder wrote:

>> AFAIK the current rpm uses the system's zlib library, so the
>> deltarpm copy is also no longer needed for Fedora.
>>
> Interesting.  That's slightly puzzling though.  That would mean that
> deltarpm wasn't able to create the same compressed payload on Fedora
> where Fedora's rpm used the system zlib, correct?
> 
Ah -- I see what you're doing.  Unfortunately, there's something in the
logic that assumes the presence of the modified zlib.  I'll see if I can
fix it to work if the compression type is plain gz and error if it's
requested to do rsyncable compression and the library doesn't support it.

-Toshio




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