Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > 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... bz2 makes things somewhat smaller, with a significant increase in cpu time and memory usage; unknown how much that is worth it. rpm already gzips the payload. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
