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| author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2012-10-03 15:54:24 +0300 |
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| committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2012-10-03 15:54:24 +0300 |
| commit | 65536214a31ecd33b6b03b68a351fb597d3703d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 311d449e7d09347836004142fbd5f9b08648b6a6 | |
| parent | xz: Improve handling of failed realloc in xrealloc. (diff) | |
| download | xz-65536214a31ecd33b6b03b68a351fb597d3703d6.tar.xz | |
xz: Fix the note about --rsyncable on the man page.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/xz/xz.1 | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/xz/xz.1 b/src/xz/xz.1 index 4a30cd9d..156fd8fa 100644 --- a/src/xz/xz.1 +++ b/src/xz/xz.1 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" This file has been put into the public domain. .\" You can do whatever you want with this file. .\" -.TH XZ 1 "2012-08-24" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" +.TH XZ 1 "2012-10-03" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" . .SH NAME xz, unxz, xzcat, lzma, unlzma, lzcat \- Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files @@ -2260,14 +2260,15 @@ The output can vary even between different builds of the same XZ Utils version, if different build options are used. .PP -The above means that implementing +The above means that once .B \-\-rsyncable -to create rsyncable -.B .xz -files is not going to happen without -freezing a part of the encoder -implementation, which can then be used with -.BR \-\-rsyncable . +has been implemented, +the resulting files won't necessarily be rsyncable +unless both old and new files have been compressed +with the same xz version. +This problem can be fixed if a part of the encoder +implementation is frozen to keep rsyncable output +stable across xz versions. . .SS "Embedded .xz decompressors" Embedded |