[Yum] Re: Questions about headers ...

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Wed Sep 24 20:12:25 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 21:54, seth vidal wrote:

> so making a tarball of the hdrs won't help - in your case it is all
> about the size of the files.

Just for the record:

It would help, sort of; for example the gzip'd normal yum headers in my
small repo are about 2.7M total, whereas after a gunzip-tar-gzip
operation for the same headers the resulting tarball is 1.7M.  It's of
course more efficient to compress large chunks of data than small.

However, as already noted elsewhere a monolithic-tarball-only approach
would cause the need to download the whole tarball whenever one hdr
changes.





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