Re: Gzip

[Julian <jul...@gm...>]

My assumption was based entirely on the fact that:
on the win32 version from gzip.org, the command "gzip -h" shows the
--rsyncable option available, and it works.
>From what you say it seems this does not apply to the sources.

In any case, patch or no patch, any reason why not to upgrade?


2008/5/10 Shachar Shemesh <sh...@sh...>:

> Julian wrote:
>
>> Thanks for 1.07.
>> The latest gzip version is 1.3.12, and seems to come with rsyncable patch
>> as standard.
>>
> Does it???
>
>> Can I assume it's safe to just go ahead and use this with rsyncrypto?
>>
> I tried this:
>
>> gzip-1.3.12$ rgrep rsync .
>> ./ChangeLog:    * TODO: Add rsync patch.
>> ./TODO:    http://www.samba.org/netfilter/diary/gzip.rsync.patch
>>
> The only references I found in the source to rsync is a "TODO" to merge the
> rsyncable patch into it. Also, the Debian patches to gzip say something
> along the lines of "everything we were fixing in gzip got merged except the
> rsyncable patch". In other words, vanilla gzip does not seem to have the
> rsyncable patch merged.
>
> Shachar
>