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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> | 2012-12-15 20:01:45 +0200 |
| commit | 1d05980f5b5c2c94d833001daccacce4a466876e (patch) | |
| tree | 255e9b4471a2bba47c10d4a60a0dc1634987dc2f | |
| parent | fb68497333598688d309a92838d91fd560f7e9f0 (diff) | |
| download | xz-1d05980f5b5c2c94d833001daccacce4a466876e.tar.gz | |
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 a7bd205..6966e56 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 @@ -2179,14 +2179,15 @@ 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 |