https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216131 ------- Comment #2 from andreas.hanke@gmx-topmail.de 2006-10-29 16:06 MST ------- I have an intuition that adding metadata compression support at this point will introduce new seg-faults into the installer, so that you would maybe get smaller metadata if the installation would not abort and leave your hard disk in a mess. The installation is officially feature-frozen since Oct 5th (3 weeks already). So let's please do it later. Note that the lack of compression does not really matter too much for the released product because the large base inst-source never changes. The statement in comment 0 is partially false because if an installation source did not change since the last refresh, YaST downloads only the 42 Bytes large "media" file and not everything, even if the source is set to autorefresh. Patch sources (with YUM metadata) are the only ones which ever change for a released product, and these are already compressed. So the only point where it would make a difference is the first time you add the large base inst-source. This does not justify the risks of such a late change IMHO. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.