Daniel Alley

[1.0 breaking change] - consolidate compression options

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createrepo_c currently has two different switches for compression types, `--compress-type` and `--general-compress-type`. The latter applies to everything, and the former only applies to files that are *not* "primary", "filelists", and...

Brainstorm ways to shrink RPM metadata

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https://github.com/rpm-software-management/createrepo_c/pull/395 and other recent PRs have brought up the topic of shrinking RPM metadata once again. I'm not thrilled with such approaches (I can live with it, but it's yak-shaving...

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/createrepo_c/blob/master/src/parsehdr.c#L665-L695 As per RPM v6 plan these are on their way out and may not even be generated as of RPM 4.16 https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/1570

createrepo_c silently parses bad metadata if the repository contains the same package (same pkgid, same NEVRA) multiple times

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The parsing API used by createrepo_c (the examples at least) is prone to parsing incorrect metadata in some scenarios where the metadata being parsed is, itself incorrect. But in this...

RepomdRecord "size_open" is initialized to -1, but "size" is uninitialized

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I came across this unintuitive behavior just now. The value `size` on `RepomdRecord` defaults to 0 if not touched (but I think it's not an actual default, it's just uninitialized...

Pick a new string to be used for PAYLOADFORMAT, and support it properly

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RPMs produced since 4.12 use a [stripped down payload format](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/2433) based on CPIO, but not compatible with CPIO. However this isn't currently reflected by the handling of the `PAYLOADFORMAT` tag,...

%caps is undocumented

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The manual doesn't include any details about %caps, the only mention is in the changelog, a couple of command line flags, and specfiles used for testing purposes.

Fix deadlock when querying package database twice from same thread.

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closes #15

It makes more sense for Package to know details about Header than the other way around. And we probably want some permutation of a `Package::from_file()` function to exist which will...

Generic Associated Types will be available within a couple of months (probably), which should allow "lending iterators" without needing special crates. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/08/03/GATs-stabilization-push.html https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1598-generic_associated_types.md