Re: adding different compression types to createrepo

Matthew Dawkins wrote:
> I'm looking to find if there are not patches out there to add an  
> option to calling for lzma or xz compression of the metafiles  
> instead of gzip. I have seen  what opensuse uses to compress the  
> primary.xml in conjunction with the gzip compression and I have  
> extended on it to compress the other and filelists files too, but  
> they don't really add clean functionality.

That would be https://features.opensuse.org/309167 I think,
but see also http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/537
/and http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/2009-April/022560.html)
and some other discussion about using YAML and/or LZMA for repodata.

I think the extended opensuse patch should be acceptable, where it
uses "primary" for .xml or .xml.gz and the new "primary_lzma" key
for .xml.lzma or .xml.xz - plus the same added for "filelists_lzma"
and "other_lzma", it causes less breakage than changing "primary"...

--anders