[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

Fri Oct 1 13:11:09 CEST 2010

* Thomas Backlund (tmb at iki.fi) wrote:
+> Olivier Thauvin skrev 1.10.2010 04:32:
+>> Hi,
+>>
+> [...]
+>>    - no resiging packages from cooker to stable at release (rpm changes,
+>>      any possible hardlink get broken)
+>
+> If we resign the whole tree and relink it "offline", and then move the  
+> full tree online, does it still break downstream mirrors ?
+
+After rpm --resign rpm differ between cooker and stable (the signature
+changed). So hardlink between cooker and stable is impossible.
+
+Howerver I have a script to redo hardlink, it allow me to win around 10GB
+over the whole mandriva mirror.
+
+> If we need to do the "move current -> old" dance, we need to be careful  
+> so mirrors does not end up resyncing another 100GB every time...
+> (IIRC you had complaints about how it was done earlier at Mandriva, so
+>  we need to remember those problems)
+
+By "old" I mean a different tree mirrors can choose to mirror or not.
+Not moving the distro from a directory to another.
+
+In other words this mean archiving the distro and make it removed from
+most of our mirror.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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