On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 12:36:50PM -0700, Wichmann, Mats D wrote: > > Can anyone tell me under what circumstances > bzip2 is chosen to compress the payload? > bzip2 is chosen if configured in the build system. I have never ever seen a package released with a bzip2 payload, mainly because bzip2 is 5-7 times slower than zlib, and has a larger memory footprint with -9 compression (-9 for bzip2 means use a 900K buffer, -9 for zlib means something else entirely). > Did this appear with a particular rpm version? > Is the choice given to the packager whether > to use bzip2 or gzip? > bzip2 compression went into rpm-3.0.5 which was the unfortunate choice of rpm version for LSB. > Trying to get this square in the LSB description > of the rpm package format. > Specific LSB details, rather than rpm history, probably matters more. 73 de Jeff -- Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ jbj@xxxxxxxxxx (jbj@xxxxxxx) Chapel Hill, NC _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
