found the sources of later versions: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/
looks like those do not contain the rsyncable feature (ie it was never officially integrated upstream) so it seems like ubuntu and debian add this patch: http://www.samba.org/netfilter/diary/gzip.rsync.patch and it was forgotten when building gzip-1.4? In fact this bug (which is about the man page) seems to confirm that rsyncable was never merged in gzip sources: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637626 > Upstream has never merged the --rsyncable patch, I continue to have to > carry it around in the Debian source package. not sure if debian 1.4 has the same issue (no debian box to test) ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #637626 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637626 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021975 Title: gzip --rsyncable not rsyncable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gzip/+bug/1021975/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
