Talk:Development/Howto/RPM

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Dick Gevers 09 Dec 2006 - Mediawiki style; housekeeping done.

[edit] Contradiction?

Hello. I'm translating this page to spanish, and I've found this: "Avoid compressing text format patches (as produced by diff and the likes) and other configuration/scripts/etc. (text) files, as it usually saves very little space, while making harder to see the changes in Subversion diffs"

Ok. But later I've found this other (Header Section): "Note that the patches are all bzipped, too. Even if a patch is small you might not benefit from bzip2 compression, but it has to be bzipped to be consistent."

It seems contradictory, it isn't? So, should the patches be bzipped or not?

Regards Osado

They should not. I'll clarify the doc. The gain is marginal anyway because most patches are small whereas the RPM payload is wholly compressed with gzip in the SRPM. Last but not least, it defeats subversion text delta and the ease of look at interdiffs. tvignaud 20:41, 12 June 2007 (CEST)