[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch

Sat Sep 3 01:50:08 CEST 2011

Am 02.09.2011 20:15, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
+> 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)
+>
+Well, then they obviously wouldn't work anymore, since by default only 
+synthesis are used :)
+