Bug 13195

Summary:	gzip's manpage omits the --rsyncable option
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Richard Neill <mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	filorin, jani.valimaa, lewyssmith, mageia, rverschelde, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	4	Keywords:	validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	advisory MGA4-32-OK MGA4-64-OK
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Richard Neill 2014-04-11 13:51:11 CEST

gzip now supports the "--rsyncable" option.

This works on Mageia, and is documented correctly in "info gzip" and "gzip -h".

However, the man page is missing this information.


In comparison, the man page on Debian/Ubuntu has it correct, including the text:

 --rsyncable
While compressing, synchronize the output occasionally based on the input.  This increases size by less than 1 percent most cases, but means that the rsync(1)  program  can  take advantage  of  similarities  in the uncompressed input when syncronizing two files compressed with this flag.  gunzip cannot tell the difference between a compressed file created with this option, and one created without it.

Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2014-04-11 17:48:31 CEST

Our rsyncable patch misses the chunk which adds info about --rsyncable switch to gzip.1. I'll sync our patch with debian to add it.

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa

Comment 2 Jani Välimaa 2014-04-11 18:06:48 CEST

Pushed new release [1] to core/updates_testing which should fix this issue. Please test it. Only modification to the pkg is this one change to man page.

[1] gzip-1.6-3.1.mga4

Assignee: bugsquad => qa-bugs

Comment 3 Guillaume 2014-04-12 09:46:00 CEST

The entry in man page is visible for me.

CC: (none) => filorin.mageia
Whiteboard: (none) => i586_OK

Rémi Verschelde 2014-04-12 11:18:56 CEST

CC: (none) => remi
Whiteboard: i586_OK => MGA4-32-OK

Comment 4 Lewis Smith 2014-04-12 21:55:01 CEST

Testing MGA4 64-bit real hardware.

Confirmed that Release gzip manpage had *no* references to rsync[able].
Updated from Core Updates Testing to gzip-1.6-3.1.mga4.
Confirmed that the --rsyncable option is now present both in manpage SYNOPSIS and OPTIONS.
OK'd.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith
Whiteboard: MGA4-32-OK => MGA4-32-OK MGA4-64-OK

Comment 5 claire robinson 2014-04-14 17:00:41 CEST

Thanks guys

Validating. Advisory uploaded.

Could sysadmin please push to 4 updates

Thanks

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
Whiteboard: MGA4-32-OK MGA4-64-OK => advisory MGA4-32-OK MGA4-64-OK
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Comment 6 Damien Lallement 2014-04-15 20:17:54 CEST

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2014-0103.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => mageia
Resolution: (none) => FIXED