On Jul 8, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Alexey Tourbin wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:44:07PM +0200, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>>     - make gzdio.c standalone.
>
> BTW, I have rsyncable gzdio implemntation (this does not require
> patched zlib, one only has to call gzflush() at certain sync points).
>
> It is known to work well.  Please review the patches and tell me
> whether you want it or not.
> http://git.altlinux.org/people/at/packages/rpm.git? 
> a=commitdiff;h=c761902b
> http://git.altlinux.org/people/at/packages/rpm.git? 
> a=commitdiff;h=f7b5ee1e
> http://git.altlinux.org/people/at/packages/rpm.git? 
> a=commitdiff;h=8d5e355e
> http://git.altlinux.org/people/at/packages/rpm.git? 
> a=commitdiff;h=52b2499a


I definitely would like to get zlib out of rpm as long as payloads  
are rsync-ready.
That's all that keeps zlib internal is the gzip.rsync.patch2

An explicit benchmark to measure the savings into tests/* would be  
extremely useful
to actually measure the benefits of --rsyncable payloads.

73 de Jeff