[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch

Mon Sep 5 20:56:21 CEST 2011

On 03.09.2011 17:41, Olivier Blin wrote:
+> Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> writes:
+> 
+>> 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.
+> 
+> It would still be of some benefit for synthesis as well, by having
+> smaller ones, and by making dependency resolution a bit simpler for
+> people having both 32 bits + 64 bits media available (by removing the
+> doble noarch packages)
+
+Well, with our current media architecture it is a no-go, since it would
+double the amount of repositories and with our current amount of repos
+changing configuration (e.g. to enable/disable Debug repos) either via
+urpmi.cfg or rpmdrake is already a major PITA.
+
+Before this can be considered, we need to change the configuration
+system so that entries (can) contain 'Distribution + options' (with a
+single flag for Debug, testing, etc), instead of current 'Media + options'.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+