Re: adding different compression types to createrepo

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 11:30 -0600, Matthew Dawkins wrote:

> Like Robert Xu said. Let the distros hash out what format and
> compression they want to provide in their own repos and not let one
> person or distro make that decision for us. If in time your sqlite
> format is AWESOME, I'm sure we will switch, but until that time we
> will continue to use the xml files.
> 


That's the problem. RPM just had xz/lzma support added for compressing
payloads. That broke..... all older versions of rpm being able to even
read/handle packages made by the newer versions.

I was hoping to keep from doing that to all of our users AGAIN.

I would LOVE to be able to wish-away all backward compat issues, but
they exist and they ARE REAL.

So, if we're going to add code that breaks compat with older clients,
I'd rather:

 - make BIG changes that benefit us a lot more than just changing the
compression format
 - work on a new standard.

-sv