But we're not compressing text, we're compressing XML. Anyway, I ran an experiment on a local copy of the Fedora 38 release repo and the differences (while they do exist) aren't very significant. Less than 10% createrepo_c --update --skip-stat --recycle-pkglist --general-compress-type gz . ============================================================ du -bh repodata/* | grep .gz 18M repodata/f6dee453a7f86804214e402ad2e444b989f044f0b16fa7ba74e5a27a8a49cd07-primary.xml.gz 52M repodata/131fa4fcd206fd3a718e4765983c8b7b276e7e634e45c226d9c465145f8e69e9-filelists.xml.gz 7.1M repodata/1c4bf077a2bdf4743a7cded3e2f72282dec5f8e4910692d193e371508552322a-other.xml.gz createrepo_c --update --skip-stat --recycle-pkglist --general-compress-type zstd . ============================================================= 15M repodata/5c05e888c6da5a13dc2a73fc6fc6e6b2f4ec9120a9544fa26c20cff14a8ace27-primary.xml.zst 41M repodata/289503c7ec867863ee67188b8d9981f7e291158a9821ae813124eb480b41cc94-filelists.xml.zst 5.5M repodata/f78b3010d62173a4a81951c24bad28deb7cb91ab678fdd515a56ff9a72574953-other.xml.zst createrepo_c --update --skip-stat --recycle-pkglist --general-compress-type xz . ============================================================ 14M repodata/a4a4b9c7da02d0cbc7bb3aa39f7f919c7ca033e685ef44e42478a6daf841b32a-primary.xml.xz 41M repodata/244e49e5b8c95280bb67a9695e4177fc9e7358f4482df2b489126c02673a48ad-filelists.xml.xz 4.9M repodata/1f492b3f77a2f9d8a0c1f646200db2575f4a37f5df4c955c8f39e622324eb3ec-other.xml.xz -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
