Michael Wiktowy wrote:
Hi, I just read http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/static/suse11.html where is mentions that OpenSuSe 11 went with a different compression algorithm for their rpms (LZMA instead of bz2) and have a few questions: 1) While every distro seems to be coming together on a package management GUI (PackageKit), does this represent a splintering of package formats? or is rpm compression algorithm agnostic? Is there any hope that the various rpm development will start pulling in the same direction?
Distribution have been shipping patches for a long while and that quantity against rpm seems to be dropping off now looking at SUSE, Mandriva etc. Compression algorithm doesn't affect the spec file format.
2) LZMA appears to have some good characteristics for installation rpms (tighter compression, 50% decompression time ... at least as implemented by 7zip ref: http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_mf4.php ). Is Fedora planing to follow this switch (or has it already and not advertised it as a prominent feature) or are there other considerations preventing that (patent issues?, not suitable for delta rpms?, 200% compression time)?
Refer to this RFE I filed a while back at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441110 Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
