[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

[Olivier Méjean]

Le vendredi 1 octobre 2010 12:46:36, Olivier Blin a écrit :
> Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:
> >> Oh, and this is why I have suggested from time to time to break noarch
> >> out of arch trees, so:
> >>
> >> SRPMS
> >> i586
> >> x86_64
> >>
> >> would turn into:
> >>
> >> SRPMS
> >> i586
> >> noarch
> >> x86_64
> >
> > We can simply do a hardlink for this, so no space is wasted and no need
> > to have different directory ( of course, the hardlink must be done maybe
> > it is already the case, didn't check ).
> 
> Yes, noarch are supposed to be hardlinked already.
> But it could make the upload process simpler to have noarch in a
> separate directory (no need to hardlink to all arches), and genhdlist2
> faster (by splitting out a noarch hdlist).
> 
> BTW, we could also consider migrating to a PLF-like tree structure,
> which looks better structured:
> 
> media/
>   main/
>     release/
>       binary/
>         noarch/
>         arch1/
>         arch2/
>         ...
>       debug/
>         arch1/
>         arch2/
>         ...
>       source/
>     testing/
>       ...
>     updates/
>       ...
>     backports/
>   contrib/
>      ...
>   non-free/
>      ...
> 

What is the difference between main and contrib ? I mean, it was a 
understandable for Mandriva, main was rpms "guaranteed" by Mandriva while 
contrib was not. But now, with a project like mageia there is no longer need 
to separate main from contrib

-- 
Olivier Méjean
Président de l'Association des Utilisateurs Francophones de Mandriva Linux
http://mandrivafr.org
twitter : obagoom
identi.ca : goom