[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

[Olivier Blin]

Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> writes:

> * 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 another arch is no longer updated.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).

Well, we have to assume that all archs in the cauldron tree are always
up-to-date :)

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Olivier Blin - blino