[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch

Fri Sep 2 20:15:25 CEST 2011

Op vrijdag 02 september 2011 16:50:00 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
+> 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)
+
+isn't hdlists still necessary for urpmf and urmq ? (I don't know, i'm just 
+asking)
+