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#71 [RFE] use xz compression for EPEL8 metadata
Closed: Fixed by carlwgeorge. Opened by jcpunk.

Closed: Fixed
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The decompress time between 'bzip2' and 'xz' is about the same, but I see a roughly 9% reduction in the metadata file size when using 'xz'. Support for 'xz' files is native to RHEL8.

Can EPEL switch to using this higher compression algorithm?

I've made a change that will hopefully do this.

Lets check tomorrow and see if it worked.

This was implemented back in 2020, so it appears to have worked.

Metadata Update from @carlwgeorge:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge:
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/epel/steering/issues/71

Please continue any further discussion there.
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