[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch

Sat Sep 3 09:49:50 CEST 2011

Am 03.09.2011 09:22, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
+> 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...
+>
+Not too big, but it also takes a while to download/process these.
+Just take a look at the /media_info directory in any repository.
+Besides the synthesis.hdlist there are additional files with the metainfo
+about files, changelog, and info.
+