On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:23:31AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, James Antill wrote: >> No, we have at least 3 problems I think: >> >> 1. Nobody wants to download uncompressed rpms, if they don't have >> presto. >> >> 2. gig signature is over the rpm data (and thus. is over compressed >> data). >> >> 3. createrepo sha256 data is over the entire rpm (and thus. is over >> compressed data). >> >> ...but to me this is all a _problem_in_xz_, not presto/deltarpms. If >> nobody can fix xz before F12 GA then IMNSO we should revert the >> compression to something that works ... the minor savings in xz >> compression isn't worth as much as delta's. >> > > agreed. The xz feature is among the Fedora 12 talking points, so I've made a note to track this going forward. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Talking_Points We'll need a heads-up to the Marketing list if there's a reversion that affects F12 GA. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
