[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

[Olivier Thauvin]

* Olivier Blin (mageia at blino.org) wrote:
> 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.

The problem will occurs if new noarch come from i586/x86_64 whereas
another arch is no longer updated. Some dependencies will get broken
between noarch <=> arch rpms (foo -arch- requires bar = 1 -noarch- and
bar get update to version 2 for exemple).

> 
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> Olivier Blin - blino
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Olivier Thauvin
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