[Yum] Gzip timestamp nullification in 1.0 branch?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 04:47, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm quite jealous about the gzip timestamp nullification finally having
> been implemented in yum, since it has been in 2.0 which only works with rpm
> >= 4.1.1 and python2, whereas my main server on which I run yum-arch is
> >still running Red Hat Linux 7.3, thus rpm 4.0.4 and python 1.5.2.
> As I have no easy way of upgrading the distro nor running yum-arch from
> another machine, I was wondering is that feature would be easy to add to
> the 1.0 branch?

I don't think it is insurmountably hard, no.
I believe the gzip lib is the same on python 1.5 as it is in python 2.2

could you RFE for this in bugzilla against yum 1.x?

thanks
-sv