On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:29:30 +0200 > drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Perhaps we should make createrepo default to XZ in Fedora rawhide, >> > and make all the tools do the right thing? > > We have already done that. rawhide and epel7 repos use > > --compress-type xz > >> > Would be nice if createrepo was influenced by a system-wide config >> > file, so we could easily implement that idea. >> > Otherwise we are forced to work around createrepo in our release >> > engineering. >> > >> > Regardless we should strive to make all repo metadata XZ compressed, >> > unless there is a good reason not to do that? > > Please file a RFE or bug on createrepo if you think it should do > something different with --compress-type xz enabled. ;) > >> Well even if we do that we need to support the old format (i.e fall >> back when xz is not available) otherwise old (third party / custom) >> repos would stop working. > > Well, it depends on what level of compatibility you want. > > Right now with xz repos, RHEL6 instances need to manually install > pyliblzma in order to work with the repos. > > In any case, any changes we want in createrepo should funnel to the > maintainer(s) for comment. Well I mean yum/dnf should still work with repos created by older (non xz) createrepo. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
