> If we're planning to drop by-default compatibility with EL7 anyway and bump > to 1.0, we > could go a little bit further. > > * "createrepo_c" doesn't need to support sqlite metadata generation at all, > so long as the repository producer can run "sqliterepo_c". If I recall > correctly, yum on EL7 doesn't actually need the sqlite metadata to be > generated in any > case, it can produce that metadata itself so long as it has the XML. Making > it available > only avoids a local processing step. But if "modifyrepo_c" will be necessary > to > work with most EL7 repos, then making "sqliterepo_c" necessary for a minor > optimization isn't a big leap.
We were also discussing adding some "mode" options that could be set to EL7 to generate compatible metadata for EL7 with just createrepo_c. > * createrepo_c currently has two different switches for compression types, > "compress-type" and "general-compress-type", where the latter applies > to everything and the former only applies to files that are *not* "primary", > "filelists", and "other". there should be one compression type option > and it should be applied uniformly to all metadata produced by the > "createrepo_c" tool. Yum would have choked on this because of the special > handling around "comps", but I believe it should no longer be a concern? Yes that is a good suggestion. There are also other command line options that could use some (re)work. For example the unique --xz option which bypasses the mentioned compression options. Unfortunately I am not sure if we will be able to prioritize all the improvements. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
