metadata compression

Joshua Bahnsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Is there support for compression types other than gzip for the yum metadata?
For example, bzip2 or LZMA?

It is possible to trim the metadata from 145 MB down to 9 MB using LZMA over
gzip. That's huge, especially when it comes to yum mirrors. Bzip2 doesn't
yield nearly as high of a compression ratio, but it is also improved over
gzip. The largest culprit with wasted filesize is other.xml, there is a ~30x
difference in size between LZMA and gzip (66 MB to 2MB).

If there is a way to do this and I am missing it, I apologize.

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