[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

Olivier Blin mageia at blino.org
Sun Oct 3 22:59:49 CEST 2010


Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:

>> 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).
>
> But this requires all arch to be synced.
> While we achieved this for x86 and x86_64, this was not the case in the
> past for sparc and ppc. Given the fact that arm is surely gonna play a
> important role, what would be the impact on various non synced ports of
> Mageia, if any ? 

Why would they be unsynced?
If we have a separate directory for noarch, it could be shared by all
arches, which means there would be no such unsync issue.

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Olivier Blin - blino


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