sizes of yum metadata files

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 13:14 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> These files used to show up compressed with gzip.  It does not
> seem to be the case for some time.  With sizes like
> 
> 37M 0dc08d372184e56c71a32b6abbd6fbdd8eedfd3d-primary.sqlite
> 65M b860206f9cc245151e10625c725c8c2eb0145c31-filelists.sqlite
> 
> this makes a substantial difference on slower connections and not
> everybody has T1.  A disk space starts to add up too.  Was this
> change deliberate?  Even a default gzip compression shaves between
> 70 and 80 percent of these.

What repo are you seeing these in?
those files are bzipped in the repo and decompressed and left
decompressed in your local cache dir.

-sv