On 8/1/07, Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:40 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > I know I'm opening up Pandoras box here but what the heck, it's Friday and > > I'm feeling slightly bored... > > I can't recall this having been brought up yet, but sometimes my memory > is spotty and it seems that the mail client's search function doesn't > work properly... > > Anyway, if we're talking about huge changes in RPM, I'd like the 2GB > payload barrier to be gone. This will most probably mean having to get > rid of cpio as the underlying archive format as even with fixes in the > code, cpio can't handle more than 4GB (some 32bit integers used in the > format AFAIK). We have other archive formats that don't have this > limitation, so (ignoring compatibility issues of old RPM version with a > new format) I can't see compelling reasons why this shouldn't be > feasible. > > Nils Since someone started this, can someone brief me on the choice of cpio vs. gz, bz2, etc? I'm assuming it wasn't a random choice, and there was/is some technical reason for it. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
