[Rpm-metadata] Rpm-metadata Digest, Vol 75, Issue 1

[Matthew Dawkins]

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>   1. adding different compression types to createrepo (Matthew Dawkins)
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> Hello, I'm new to the list, but not new to using createrepo and yum for
> repo
> creation.
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> I'm looking to find if there are not patches out there to add an option to
> calling for lzma or xz compression of the metafiles instead of gzip. I have
> seen  what opensuse uses to compress the primary.xml in conjunction with
> the
> gzip compression and I have extended on it to compress the other and
> filelists files too, but they don't really add clean functionality.
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> Regards,
> Matthew Dawkins
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> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:46:07 +0200
> From: Anders F Bj?rklund <afb at algonet.se>
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> Subject: Re: [Rpm-metadata] adding different compression types to
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> Matthew Dawkins wrote:
> > I'm looking to find if there are not patches out there to add an
> > option to calling for lzma or xz compression of the metafiles
> > instead of gzip. I have seen  what opensuse uses to compress the
> > primary.xml in conjunction with the gzip compression and I have
> > extended on it to compress the other and filelists files too, but
> > they don't really add clean functionality.
>
> That would be https://features.opensuse.org/309167 I think,
> but see also http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/537
> /and http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum/2009-April/022560.html)
> and some other discussion about using YAML and/or LZMA for repodata.
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> I think the extended opensuse patch should be acceptable, where it
> uses "primary" for .xml or .xml.gz and the new "primary_lzma" key
> for .xml.lzma or .xml.xz - plus the same added for "filelists_lzma"
> and "other_lzma", it causes less breakage than changing "primary"...
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> --anders
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Well, I'll add the URL to my rediffed patch. It would be nice to drop the
hybrid from making both compression types files and just use one or the
other.

http://dev.unity-linux.org/projects/unitylinux/repository/entry/packages/createrepo/P/createrepo-0.9.8-add-lzma-option-to-generate-primary.xml.lzma.patch

I tried to do it with little luck. I believe the creation of the checksum
for other than gzip files present is needed and then not appending the the
primary,other,filelists_lzma, but rather just that info instead inside
repomd.xml.

Matt
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