Re: adding different compression types to createrepo

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 12:25 +0200, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:
> On 08/03/2010 05:14 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> > 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?

sure.
Discussion starts here:
http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum-devel/2010-June/007122.html

and goes on for a ways.

-sv