Why remove the uncompressed XML files from repodata?
PshySimon opened this issue · 3 comments
I'm confused about this commit, 22eb96f, which remove uncompressed XML files from repodata.
I want to know what specific impact does this operation have?
Btw, I noticed in the changelog that there is mention of incompatibility with yum, specifically, where exactly is the incompatibility located?
My understanding: The way how some files were compressed diverged over the time. Some were compressed, some kept uncompressed. I believe that commit was an attempt to unify the compression. One of the reasons why some files were kept uncompressed were bugs in old yum versions which forgot to support a compression on that files. That's the incompatibility.
More details could provide you an author of that commit.
If you are fine with the answer, I will close this issue.
That answer is essentially correct. If you need to use a new very version of createrepo_c with an old distribution thta uses yum, please use the --compatibility flag.