On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 22:24, seth vidal wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 15:54 +0200, Matias Feliciano wrote: > > Le ven 23/07/2004 à 07:13, seth vidal a écrit : > > > [...] > > > http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/createrepo-0.3.4.tar.gz > > > http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/createrepo-0.3.4-1.src.rpm > > > > > > [...] > > > primary.xml.gz - this holds the primary metadata for the packages > > > (names, summary, requires, provides, deps, etc) > > > > bzip2 instead of gzip ? > > apt use bzip2. > > > > bzip2 is more processor intensive apt uses bzip2 for its repositories for quite a while. The processor load this had introduced had never been an actual problem. Conversely, users on low bandwith connections had appreciated it. Ralf
