Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > 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. cpio is a real standard archive format (there are something like a half dozen _different_ tar formats around) plus it is very simple. gz, bz2, etc are file compression standards, that is completely orthogonal to the packing. And yes, if we are looking for new RPM features, perhaps a look at better compression would be in order... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
