[Rpm-metadata] adding different compression types to createrepo

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 13:04 -0600, Matthew Dawkins wrote:
>         
>         
>         'all they hear is no'? Seriously, you've asked for one thing
>         and you've
>         been given a fairly detailed and nuanced answer and you boil
>         it down to
>         'no'?
>         
>         
>         
> 
> Honestly, maybe that's the problem. Instead of addressing the question
> head on. The responses have been more or less negative. I haven't seen
> one positive response of well maybe this could work for everyone
> without breaking compatiblitly.
> 
> 
> Why don't you ask? How many people would like to see alternative
> options to compress the xml or sqlite files? Minus repomd.xml.
> Apparently Duncan and opensuse have already tried to slightly address
> the issue?
> 
> 
> Look I'm not trying to be confronting, but at least please try to work
> with the idea.
> 

I thought we did. By using a different datatype this is doable in a way
that won't break older clients. It WILL require some modification to
existing clients to get them to handle the xz/lzma type.

I brought up the subject of discussing big changes to the
format/repodata in another thread which, I'll note, I've received
nothing by echoing silence on.


-sv