createrepo/rpm-metadata repository format creator ver 0.3.4

[Sindre Pedersen Bjordal]

lør, 24.07.2004 kl. 13.01 skrev Ralf Corsepius:
> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 22:24, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 15:54 +0200, Matias Feliciano wrote:
> > > Le ven 23/07/2004 à 07:13, seth vidal a écrit :
> > > > [...]
> > > > http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/createrepo-0.3.4.tar.gz
> > > > http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/createrepo-0.3.4-1.src.rpm
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > > primary.xml.gz - this holds the primary metadata for the packages
> > > >                  (names, summary, requires, provides, deps, etc)
> > > 
> > > bzip2 instead of gzip ?
> > > apt use bzip2.
> > > 
> > 
> > bzip2 is more processor intensive
> apt uses bzip2 for its repositories for quite a while. The processor
> load this had introduced had never been an actual problem. Conversely,
> users on low bandwith connections had appreciated it.
> 
> Ralf
> 

Just out of curiosity, how big a difference does bz2 make in compression
and increase of processor load?

-- 
Sindre Pedersen Bjordal <foolish at fedoraforum.org>
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