how do we handle distribution files with different compressions

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hi,

suppose repository a has, say

ftp://nodea/path/rep-version.tar.Z

and repository b has

http://nodeb/path/rep-version.tar.gz

such that

gzip -d rep-version.tar.gz | compress | cmp /dev/stdin rep-version.tar.Z

shows no difference.

Can we handle this situation without much trouble? 

Yes, I know, normally you just ignore one of them, but in this case there
aren't any other repositories, and I'd like a bit of redundancy.

Regards,
        -is