[Rpm-metadata] Another suggestion

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 13:31 -0300, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I have another small suggestion. I've just noticed that repomd.xml
> doesn't include information about the uncompressed files (e.g.
> primary.xml). It may be interesting to maintain this information around,
> since it'd make it possible to check the file validity after
> uncompressing it, and it'd also make it possible to maintain only the
> uncompressed file locally and even then know if the file has been
> changed remotely or not.

Why is that particularly valuable? The xml parsers I've seen all read
through the gzipping transparently and I've not noticed a speed hit by
reading it as a gzipped file.

Where's the advantage of storing it uncompressed?

-sv