[Rpm-metadata] more updates - filelists and more! :)

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Oct 27 14:07:47 UTC 2003


> One line per package isn't worth worrying about, comment or attribute. 
> There's
> fancier things that could be done to tokenize path components if you 
> really want
> to reduce bandwidth. Basically each component in path gets converted to 
> token,
> sort the tokens on # of occurences, then assign representation like, 
> say, integer.
> The sort on usage insures small integers for commonly used tokens.

right - but right now we're talking about 1.3MB for all of fedora core +
srpms. I'm not too worried about bandwidth :)

-sv





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