> From: Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> > The metadata starts in XML before being loaded into an SQLite DB file, > and the XML is in the repodata directory with the DB. However, both are > compressed, as they are large. For example, the current > updates/18/x86_64 XML is over 34M (5M gzip compressed), and the DB is > 41M (9M bzip2 compressed). I'm guessing there are historical reasons > why different compression is used; both could be made noticeably smaller > with xz (XML to just over 3M, DB to 7M), but that's still a lot of data > to download (and there are also other metadata files that have to be > downloaded sometimes, especially the filelists.xml.gz, which is 10M gzip > compressed).
I was thinking there had been some xz integration recently. Maybe that was with the delta rpm support. I don't follow that though since we have a local mirror, there's not much point in rsycing, storing, etc. the deltas. > I'm not sure when the XML is downloaded instead of (or in addition to) > the DB, but it does appear to happen (I see one example in my mirror > server web logs this morning for example). I've wondered about that too. I sure hope we didn't add the efficient method on top of the inefficient method, rather than replace it. -- John Florian
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