[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch

Fri Sep 2 16:50:00 CEST 2011

On 2 September 2011 14:06, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> It would help would be by having smaller hdlists, but I am not sure it
+> would really help mirror so much. ( ie, I would not say "lots of space"
+> even if that still a saving )
+
+Actualy hdlist are pretty much unused these days.
+urpmi (and thus the installer) doesn't use them any longer for quite a few
+years already (at least since 2007 or 2008).
+
+At that time, we only kept those big babies for:
+- users adding media from older distro for live upgrading but:
+  1) all mdv distros since 4 years handle that
+  2) we don't support upgrading from anything <2010
+- some test tools (don't remember which one) that nobody use still parse them
+
+That's why network BW usage by urpmi is small for checking media (checking
+if MD5SUM still matches then download small synthesis if needed)
+That doesn't change the amount of RAM and the CPU time needed to parse
+& compute updates but thats' another story...
+
+We could try to disable hdlists from cauldron mirrors and see who's crying
+(I guess nobody will)
+