On 2018-09-19 10:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Wednesday 2018-09-19 10:47, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
I had noticed that our rpm files and especially .drpm files can get a lot smaller by compressing them with xz or gzip.
1) how much effort would it be to patch librpm, libsolv, libzypp, createrepo, OBS and other tools to support .rpm.xz files.
Prior report: http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557433
The current stance is that *zstd* is the new kid on the block (and rpm supports it now, too), compressing nearly as strong as xz, but in the timespace of gzip.
Updating %_binary_payload in prjconf or rpm-config-SUSE should do the job, at least for the plain BRPMs. %_source_payload for SRPMS. Not sure about drpms - AFAIU, they count as BRPMs.
nay, that is only about payload, but most drpms consist of >90% metadata (so not payload) and that is why they are so compressible. And even normal rpms have as much metadata (just the ratio is different). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org