[Aide-devel] Re: [Pkg-aide-maintainers] How does aide use zlib?

[Richard van den Berg]

Marc Haber wrote:
> Afaik, aide only uses zlib to read and/or write the compressed
> database. Usually, the data source is a local file which is only
> writeable by root, but aide can pull the reference data from a web
> server as well.

The pulling of the database from a web server is available as a patch to 
aide, but it has not entered the CVS version yet.

> Do I see correctly that aide uses whatever zlib is present on the
> build system at build time and statically links to that version?

Correct.

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg