Re: adding different compression types to createrepo

On 08/03/2010 05:14 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> More likely than not most of the metadata will be transitioned to
> sqlite-db ONLY and no xml at all. Yum already supports repos with only
> sqlite dbs and no xml (other than repomd.xml).
>

openSUSE does not use sqlite databases as we convert the xml into solv 
files on the client. So I hope xml files doesn't dissapear for what we 
considered (rpm-md) to be a potential standard in the rpm world.

If we ever do something on the server side, it would be solv files also. 
But that would be ZYpp specific and probably implemented as extensions.

> 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.

Can you point us to that layout description?

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