Re: Fedora 31 System-Wide Change proposal: Switch RPMs to zstd compression

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On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 18:32 -0400, James Cassell wrote:
> 
> Would this help with drpms similar to how it helps with faster yum
> repo metadata downloads? My biggest problem with drpms is the slow
> rebuild speed which is usually slower than my download bandwidth.  It
> would be a big win if zstd helps here.

Unfortunately not.  The drpm rebuild process involves recompressing the
rpm, so we'd be affected by the compression speed, not the
decompression speed.  With zstd compression level > 15, the drpm
rebuild speed would actually slow down (possibly quite significantly).

Jonathan
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