On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:41AM +0100, Andreas Hanke wrote: > Keith Goggin schrieb: > > I've noticed that <filelists.xml.gz> is refreshed by Yast YOU if it has > > changed on the server. It takes me about 4 minutes to download from > > <mirror.pacific.net.au> and is currently 2.9MB in size. > > It's really insane. This XML stuff has made SUSE distros basically > unusable without a broadband connection. 3MB before the distro is even > released - crazy! > > > I had a look at this compressed text file and observed that it contains a > > very > > large proportion of redundant data. > > > > /a/b/c/d/e/file1 > > /a/b/c/d/e/file2 > > etc > > > > If this file could be compressed further by omitting the redundant data the > > compressed version would download much faster and may improve the end users > > experience of updating their system. > > Yes, there are much more efficient ways to store these data than repomd > does. But hey, XML is so much cooler. > > Maybe one of those talented persons who designed repomd should have a > look at /var/lib/locatedb. It's able to store equivalent information > about 2 Linuxes, 1 Windows system and a lot of user files in just 2.5MB. > Thanks to not using XML.
Yeah, I saw this too and thought about at least using some kind of directory prefix or similar handling. XML really makes it easy to be stupid in data design :/ Ciao, MArcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
