sizes of yum metadata files
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Oct 17 19:21:07 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 13:14 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> These files used to show up compressed with gzip. It does not
> seem to be the case for some time. With sizes like
>
> 37M 0dc08d372184e56c71a32b6abbd6fbdd8eedfd3d-primary.sqlite
> 65M b860206f9cc245151e10625c725c8c2eb0145c31-filelists.sqlite
>
> this makes a substantial difference on slower connections and not
> everybody has T1. A disk space starts to add up too. Was this
> change deliberate? Even a default gzip compression shaves between
> 70 and 80 percent of these.
What repo are you seeing these in?
those files are bzipped in the repo and decompressed and left
decompressed in your local cache dir.
-sv
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