Re: adding different compression types to createrepo

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 12:02 -0400, James Antill wrote:
>  *shrug*, I'm not sure why we'd want to add support for lzma on the
> obsolete .xml files. Smart and apt both support .sqlite now, and if
> zypper doesn't they can always use modifyrepo to add them for SuSE.
>  Also calling them "primary_db.xz" would fit the convention with
> "groups.gz".

nod. s/_xz/.xz/ yes.



> > My biggest reticence in adding the xz support now is that if we move to
> > changing the repodata format to the layout that's been discussed on here
> > and on yum-devel list that we'll be able to move to xz support(and some
> > future proofing for compression formatting) w/o having to kludge a bunch
> > of xz compression crap into createrepo.
> 
>  Well it's going to be much easier to just change the compression, but
> it's not the end of the world if you want to put it off a year or so
> (IMO).

like I said - reticence. Not decided at all. :-/

-sv