[Mageia-dev] Bug 2157 - Switch to "standard" rpm metadata for package repositories in Mageia 2

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 28 October 2011 07:42, Marja van Waes <marja11 at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> Some not very useful index size numbers for mga cauldron x86_64
>> core/release :
>> 1.7M    synthesis.hdlist.cz
>> 1M      info.xml.lzma
>> 5,6M    changelog.xml.lzma
>> 8,7M    files.xml.lzma
>>
>> 4,4M    primary.xml.gz
>> 3,4M    other.xml.gz
>> 11M     filelists.xml.gz (8,8M when compressed with xz)

slowing by x3 the time for checking for updates is not acceptable