[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch

Sat Sep 3 09:22:37 CEST 2011

Op zaterdag 03 september 2011 01:50:08 schreef Florian Hubold:
+> 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 :)
+
+so even the synthesis files are too big? i mean, if you're in rpmdrake, and you 
+click on a package, it seems to fetch more details. is that from synthesis 
+files? because it takes quite some time to fetch it...
+