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Description of problem:
...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
createrepo-0.9.9-22.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. createrepo .
2. touch file
3. modifyrepo --compress-type=xz file repodata/

Actual results:
Wrote: /root/x/repodata/file.bz2
           type = file
       location = repodata/c44de2322a019e5a63623d0b6f17d82089bc491a94fedfebc8811345662f3b9c-file.bz2
       checksum = c44de2322a019e5a63623d0b6f17d82089bc491a94fedfebc8811345662f3b9c
      timestamp = 1449144133.86
  open-checksum = 0b4f321bf090fcf3792f5fffc4fcd1801fab37e0470c66d46cb0f0181b316a73
Wrote: /root/x/repodata/repomd.xml

# file repodata/c44de2322a019e5a63623d0b6f17d82089bc491a94fedfebc8811345662f3b9c-file.bz2
repodata/c44de2322a019e5a63623d0b6f17d82089bc491a94fedfebc8811345662f3b9c-file.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k


Expected results:
either produce xz file or give an error same as createrepo, i.e.:
"Compression xz not available: Please choose from: gz, bz2"

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