createrepo/rpm-metadata repository format creator ver 0.3.4

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 15:54 +0200, Matias Feliciano wrote:
> Le ven 23/07/2004 à 07:13, seth vidal a écrit :
> > [...]
> > http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/createrepo-0.3.4.tar.gz
> > http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/createrepo-0.3.4-1.src.rpm
> > 
> > [...]
> > primary.xml.gz - this holds the primary metadata for the packages
> >                  (names, summary, requires, provides, deps, etc)
> 
> bzip2 instead of gzip ?
> apt use bzip2.
> 

bzip2 is more processor intensive and it is not available everywhere
(earlier versions of python, for example)

-sv