Bug 201496 - repodata could be bzip2 compressed
Summary: repodata could be bzip2 compressed
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-08-06 10:01 UTC by wbrana
Modified: 2014-01-21 22:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-09-18 20:59:38 UTC
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Description wbrana 2006-08-06 10:01:35 UTC
Description of problem:
Files in repodata:
filelists.xml.gz
other.xml.gz
primary.xml.gz
updateinfo.xml.gz
could be bzip2 compressed to decrease size up to 50%.

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Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-08-07 15:21:49 UTC
This has been looked at a few times and the additional hit for decompression
time was more significant than the size savings.  

Do you have any data to show otherwise?

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2006-09-18 20:59:38 UTC
Closing due to inactivity


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