Bill Nottingham wrote:
Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand inf utfsm cl) said:cpio is a real standard archive format (there are something like a half dozen _different_ tar formats around) plus it is very simple. gz, bz2, etc are file compression standards, that is completely orthogonal to the packing. And yes, if we are looking for new RPM features, perhaps a look at better compression would be in order...bz2 makes things somewhat smaller, with a significant increase incpu time and memory usage; unknown how much that is worth it.
I think someone from SUSE said it has not been worth the trouble to them here previously.
Rahul