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| author |  David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2014-03-28 22:14:51 -0300 |
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| committer | David Bremner <david@tethera.net> | 2014-04-12 07:59:44 -0300 |
| commit | 3c13bc0321baaf340663779d6fce2b1f34c1c2c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 482e64a162df828622440c1818bf58624bff2435 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 69867c33fa946514e9de6efff0541762b2755484 (diff) | |
dump: support gzipped and atomic output
The main goal is to support gzipped output for future internal
calls (e.g. from notmuch-new) to notmuch_database_dump.
The additional dependency is not very heavy since xapian already pulls
in zlib.
We want the dump to be "atomic", in the sense that after running the
dump file is either present and complete, or not present. This avoids
certain classes of mishaps involving overwriting a good backup with a
bad or partial one.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ configure stage. Dependencies ------------ -Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4 or 2.6, and -Talloc which are each described below: +Notmuch depends on four libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4 or 2.6, +Talloc, and zlib which are each described below: Xapian ------ @@ -60,6 +60,18 @@ Talloc which are each described below: Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/ + zlib + ---- + + zlib is an extremely popular compression library. It is used + by Xapian, so if you installed that you will already have + zlib. You may need to install the zlib headers separately. + + Notmuch needs the transparent write feature of zlib introduced + in version 1.2.5.2 (Dec. 2011). + + zlib is available from http://zlib.net + Building Documentation ---------------------- @@ -79,11 +91,11 @@ dependencies with a simple simple command line. For example: For Debian and similar: - sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libtalloc-dev python-sphinx + sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libtalloc-dev zlib1g-dev python-sphinx For Fedora and similar: - sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel python-sphinx + sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel zlib-devel python-sphinx On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of the package names may be different. |