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)
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