filelists.xml.gz in rpm-md repos

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Wed Aug 27 14:02:01 PDT 2008


Christian Morales Vega:

>> PS. Download-size-wise, the .sqlite.bz2 format is smaller.
> Looking at ftp://ftp.cica.es/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/x86_64/ 
> os/repodata/
> and ftp://ftp.cica.es/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/x86_64/os/ 
> repodata/
> .sqlite.bz2 files are bigger.

Scratch that then :-)

Incidentally, my sqlite parser to read them was also slower
(than the matching xml parser, not counting decompression)

Guess they only make sense when the depsolver uses them
(i.e. you're running Yum), same as with the .solv files...

So, *.xml.gz it is.

--anders




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