rpm's zlib and deltarpms

[Jeff Johnson]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>On 5/4/05, Jeff Johnson <n3npq at nc.rr.com> wrote:
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>>Make sure you include the RFE to distribute zlib.h and zconf.h with rpm too.
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>You don't consider the patched zlib source in the srpm for rpm a
>modified source distribution of zlib?    Seems to me  that zlib.h and
>zconf.h as distributed in the rpm srpm falls inside the scenario laid
>on in the zlib faq for modified source distributions... making any
>such RFE unecessarily.
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>No real point in arguing about this legal hair-splitting in the lists.
>I'm sure this minor license compliance issue with regard to how zlib
>is maintained as part of the rpm sourcecode base will cross paths with
>a redhat legal rep at some point if it hasn't already happened.  The
>only question I have is, if the version string in the zlib.h inside
>the rpm codebase is changed does that have a technical impact on any
>codebase that is currently interacting with rpm?
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No interaction is possible unless zlib.h and zconf.h are distributed. 
Hence the RFE ...

73 de Jeff