On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, seth vidal wrote:
> - Do we really want users to download all the src.rpm data each
time? Most
> users don't do anything with that information so it sucks up bandwidth for
> no purpose. Maybe the src.rpm file information should be separated to
> different files?
the src rpms stuff are more of a <Shrug>. I got a bunch of complaints
about yum's src.rpm header.info file being separate from the primary
header.info so I figured that might help resolve it.
Dunno, nobody ever complained apt having separate files for binary and
source indexes :) Not that I personally care about it either, I've enough
plenty enough bandwidth and would download the src.rpm stuff
anyway. Just a bit of wasted bandwidth for everybody to download those but
no big deal.
> - Any particular reason for using gzip instead of bzip2? The
difference
> can be huge, especially for other.xml:
Yah - bzip2 isn't everywhere - gzip is.
Specifically bzip2 isn't in python 2.2 - you need an external module
that's not in fedora core 1.
Ok, I thought it might have to do with that. OTOH there's a bz2 python
module in python 2.3 which is in FC2, which I think is the "target" for
this stuff anyway.
- Panu -