[Bug 1597287] Review Request: zchunk - A compressed file format that allows easy deltas

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1597287



--- Comment #10 from Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@xxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Igor Gnatenko from comment #9)
> (In reply to Jonathan Dieter from comment #7)
> > (In reply to Igor Gnatenko from comment #5)
> > > So the licensing is complicated here:
> > > * It should be BSD and MIT and Public Domain
> > > * Provides: bundled(buzhash) = VERSION OF BUZHASH
> > 
> > I had to modify the original code, so it can't really be unbundled.  I'll go
> > ahead and add the provides.
> > 
> > > There seems to be some bundled code about multipart parsing...
> > 
> > There was, but it didn't do what I needed, so I had to start from scratch. 
> > I obviously forgot to delete the original README.md, so I'll take care of
> > that
> 
> Why did you do that? Any reason not to use some other dependency which meet
> your needs?

I looked, but couldn't find anything that would do it. I don't think many
pieces of software use multiple range requests in a single http request, so I
just wrote the code myself.

> > > * Provides: bundled(something) = VERSION OF THIS SOMETHING
> > > * Provides: bundled(sha1) = …
> > > * Provides: bundled(sha2) = …
> > > 
> > > But please, can you unbundle those?
> > 
> > These were bundled to keep dependencies at a minimum because I see zchunk as
> > having universal use, even in places where openssl might not be available.
> > 
> > Having said that, if you feel strongly about this, I will change zchunk so
> > openssl is an optional dependency, that, if available, will provide the
> > hashing functions rather than the built-in hashing functions.
> > 
> > Do you feel that that would be worth the effort?
> 
> Just saying that it can't be dependency of dnf because in enterprise any
> crypto-related code has to be checked and certified. While if you use
> openssl, this is already done. So yes, please use openssl.

Ok, will do

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