Dunno where my reply went. Apologies if duplicate ...

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> From: Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com>
> Date: July 8, 2008 7:21:31 PM EDT
> To: rpm-devel@rpm5.org
> Subject: Re: rsyncable gzdio
>
>
> 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