Dne Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:04:23 +0300 Jonathan Dieter napsal(a):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524720
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524982
...
The second one has to do with the fact that when rebuilding the rpms,
we have to recompress the data, and xz compression is over 10x slower
than gzip.
Do I understand it right that yum-presto compresses the data and then
passes them to rpm which decompresses them back again?
Why? Is it because it's currently the only way to verify
checksums/signatures?
Michal