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Bug 1253109 - createrepo_c won't generate xz compressed XML metadata with --xz or --compress-type=xz
Summary: createrepo_c won't generate xz compressed XML metadata with --xz or --compres...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: createrepo_c
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Mlcoch
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-08-13 02:09 UTC by Neal Gompa
Modified: 2015-08-14 09:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-08-14 09:29:28 UTC
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Description Neal Gompa 2015-08-13 02:09:11 UTC 
Description of problem:
When using createrepo_c to create repodata that is xz-compressed, it goes ahead and creates gz compressed XML metadata anyway. If I am creating SQLite data too, that data is compressed the way I want it to be, but the XML data is not.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
createrepo_c-0.9.0-3.fc22

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a folder with some RPMs
2. Run one of the following:
   * createrepo_c --no-database --compress-type=xz <path/to/folder>
   * createrepo_c --database --compress-type=xz <path/to/folder>
   * createrepo_c --no-database --xz <path/to/folder>
   * createrepo_c --database --xz <path/to/folder>

Actual results:
The repodata subfolder contains gz-compressed XML data.

Expected results:
The repodata subfolder contains xz-compressed XML data.

Additional info:
N/A
Comment 1 Tomas Mlcoch 2015-08-14 09:29:28 UTC 
Hi Neal,
this is because of compatibility with createrepo.
I don't like it either, but createrepo does exactly the same thing and because createrepo_c is supposed to be drop-in replacement and thus preserve such illogical behaviour.
Maybe I could add some kind of new command line option or something.
Feel free to open an RFE with ideal of how you would like to see this behave.
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