On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:17:40PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > *All* of that is in the RPM header. It's not pulling anything out of the > > > file payload. > > > > So? createrepo would need to parse a bit more of the RPM. > > 1) Having createrepo have to parse the entire cpio metadata to > look for a particular file would be insanely slow > 2) I just picked a random package I maintain. The ChangeLog is > 1.4MB uncompressed, 326k compressed. Even if that's larger than > typical, imagine scaling that out across 7000 source packages, > and then the size of the resulting XML to download... In gcc ChangeLogs are 5.2MB bzip2 -9ed, glibc has 6.5MB of uncompressed ChangeLogs (haven't checked how big they are compressed). Putting that all into metadata is going to grow it a lot. Jakub -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
