Re: [Rpm-metadata] createrepo 0.4.11

[Michael Schroeder <mls suse de>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:03:32PM +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:57:09AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > Again, how does the predictability of order the filelists and deps/reqs
> > are put into the metadata impact the functionality?

> This is about stability of the data. Currently you cannot easily
> run createrepo and quickly check the output against the existing data.

Another thing that speaks for sorting is that an xdelta between two
versions would be smaller (for compressed files you need
'gzip --rsyncable'). Makes rsyncing to mirrors a bit faster.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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