Jonathan Dieter wrote:
Tried it and it works correctly for both directions (old rpm gzip,
new
rpm xz and vice versa).
> This would mean that drpms on rawhide will still suck upto F12, but I
> could live with that :).
> I assume we don't do F11 => F12 drpms?
>
> On the other side of it, does anyone have any stats. on how much was
> saved by using Xz instead of bzip2? -- Ie. what we'd lose if we did a
> mass rebuild.
>
Here's one I came across:
http://fedoratux.blogspot.com/2009/05/xz-compression.html
Jonathan
The article also hints at our problem. We ARE doing the compression on
the end user side. So the compression is costing us 3 minutes to save 24
megabytes of transmission. This actually slows things down for most
broadband users.