Re: 2 commits - createrepo/__init__.py createrepo/utils.py genpkgmetadata.py mergerepo.py modifyrepo.py

On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 08:58 +0200, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > commit dafea8c15d5feaaf50a9df4898fd34eed1b09916
> > Author: Seth Vidal <[email protected]>
> > Date:   Thu Sep 15 17:55:50 2011 -0400
> > 
> >    add --compress-type everywhere and make it all behave.
> > 
> >    can't default to xz yet for all md b/c of y-m-p silliness.
> > 
> 
> There was some patches* for yum-metadata-parser last year,
> to handle the lzma and xz compression in addition to gzip ?
> Since those aren't built-in to libxml2, it needed to use
> a temporary file and uncompress before calling parsefile...
> 
> If you're accepting patches now, could try and dig it up.

I don't know of when I wasn't accepting patches

> * In the end, it ended up not being used since the new
> files used primary_lzma etc and the gzip was kept too.
> When the xz compression *was* used, the sqlite wasn't,
> so it I don't think sqlitecachec ended up being patched.

Right - I'm not interested in adding repodata to handle the formats.


-sv


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