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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch</H1>
    <B>Maarten Vanraes</B> 
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<PRE>Op vrijdag 02 september 2011 16:50:00 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
&gt;<i> On 2 September 2011 14:06, Michael Scherer &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; It would help would be by having smaller hdlists, but I am not sure it
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; would really help mirror so much. ( ie, I would not say &quot;lots of space&quot;
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; even if that still a saving )
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Actualy hdlist are pretty much unused these days.
</I>&gt;<i> urpmi (and thus the installer) doesn't use them any longer for quite a few
</I>&gt;<i> years already (at least since 2007 or 2008).
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> At that time, we only kept those big babies for:
</I>&gt;<i> - users adding media from older distro for live upgrading but:
</I>&gt;<i>   1) all mdv distros since 4 years handle that
</I>&gt;<i>   2) we don't support upgrading from anything &lt;2010
</I>&gt;<i> - some test tools (don't remember which one) that nobody use still parse
</I>&gt;<i> them
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> That's why network BW usage by urpmi is small for checking media (checking
</I>&gt;<i> if MD5SUM still matches then download small synthesis if needed)
</I>&gt;<i> That doesn't change the amount of RAM and the CPU time needed to parse
</I>&gt;<i> &amp; compute updates but thats' another story...
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> We could try to disable hdlists from cauldron mirrors and see who's crying
</I>&gt;<i> (I guess nobody will)
</I>
isn't hdlists still necessary for urpmf and urmq ? (I don't know, i'm just 
asking)
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