If we did this, wouldn't it make it very difficult to use tools like mock on RHEL / CentOS 7 to build for Fedora 3x? Or does RHEL 7 RPM support zstd?
We're pretty much screwed here. Also, since RHEL 8's rpm package does not have zstd support compiled in, it too cannot handle the RPMs.
Hence it needs to be configurable. Fedora EPEL RPMs need to be built with xz. Everything else that's expected to be consumed by Fedora 29 and higher, can use either zstd or xz. I'd expect RHEL built packages intended for Fedora would use xz, and Fedora's RPM would support that just fine.
Fedora should provide a means to convert from .rpm-with-compression-A to .rpm-with-compression-B. Already there is 'alien' which converts between .rpm, .deb, and .tgz. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
