[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch

Sat Sep 3 10:06:08 CEST 2011

On 02.09.2011 21:15, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+> 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)
+
+No.
+
+xml-info is used for the data not found in synthesis.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+