status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 18:27:22 UTC 2009


On 09/15/2009 06:55 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 13:44 +0200, Josephine Tannhäuser wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I googled for it and found Karims blogpost and Simon aka kassamedias
>> answer (comment 3)
>>
>> http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/zsync-transfer-large-files-efficiently/
> 
> If we _really_ cared about doing this OAOO, we could probably get the
> rsync package to drop out its own zlib copy as a shared lib, make that a
> subpackage, and link zsync against that.
> 
> But, for 74k of shared library, I just don't care that much.  This
> shouldn't block packaging zsync.
> 
The rules against shared libraries aren't because of saving space::

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_Bundled_Libraries

And yep, I agree with your analysis of how we can do this.

-Toshio

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