add extra indicator config variable for compressed lists file.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/patchtracker/Conf.py b/patchtracker/Conf.py
index 448f595..4fbc7c1 100755
--- a/patchtracker/Conf.py
+++ b/patchtracker/Conf.py
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ cachedir = "cache"
 cachecompress = False
 """ Should compression of cache data be enabled? """
 
+archive_lists_compressed = False
+""" Are the archive lists in the local partial mirror compressed?  Different
+    versions of reprepro seem to behave differently here so this is an
+    indication flag for the scripts that interact with it.  
+"""
+
 try:
   from localconfig import *
 except ImportError:
diff --git a/reprepro/conf/diffsonly.py b/reprepro/conf/diffsonly.py
index 286d367..e37b911 100755
--- a/reprepro/conf/diffsonly.py
+++ b/reprepro/conf/diffsonly.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
   inf = sys.argv[1]
   fh = None
   slist = []
-  if fnmatch(inf, "*.gz"):
+  if fnmatch(inf, "*.gz") or Conf.archive_lists_compressed:
     fh = GzipFile(inf)
   else:
     fh = file(inf)