#5362: Use XZ for repository metadata compression

Mon Jan 27 10:08:34 UTC 2014

#5362: Use XZ for repository metadata compression
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  Reporter:  elad         |      Owner:  rel-eng@…
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Milestone:               |  Component:  other
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
Blocked By:               |   Blocking:
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Comment (by elad):

 Any chance this can be done for F21 and Rawhide? yum supports xz in all
 currently-supported Fedora releases, so the transition would be smooth and
 probably un-noticable.

 From rel-eng side, it just means adding --compress-type=xz to the
 createrepo call in the script.

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