http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586960 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586960#c1 Michal Marek <mmarek@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P1 - Urgent Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #1 from Michal Marek <mmarek@novell.com> 2010-03-10 10:23:49 UTC --- Some data from the original bug: The problem is that gzip doesn't cope well with the duplication because the text only repeats after several hundred kilobytes, it has a dictionary of 64kb. Ideas for the future were: * make primary.xml.gz zsyncable (https://features.opensuse.org/309088) * implement some rotation for primary.xml.gz * use lzma, which compresses the duplicate dependencies just fine (all three options assume that the original primary.xml.gz stays for compatibility reasons). The more urgent thing is what to do with 11.2. In git, I already blacklisted some of the provides, removed provides for kernel-vanilla completely (because nobody is building KMPs for vanilla) and removed the firmware(...) provides, which are not used anywhere. This reduced the number to about 44% (total of 83856 provides for all kernel-{debug,default,desktop,pae,trace,vanilla,xen}{,-base} for both architectures). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.