[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 02 september 2011 05:38:01 schreef Funda Wang:
> 2011/9/2 Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com>:
> > When upgrading lilypond I noticed that someone else mad the doc package
> > noarch to "make the huge doc subpackage be noarch"
> > 
> > 1. What is the advantage of this? We have noarch packages in i586 and
> > x86_64 anyway
> 
> We may split noarch packages into a new directory in the future, like
> what opensuse is doing. That will save a lot of space for mirrors.

afaik noarch is hardlinked, plus underlying storage might have deduplication.

> > 2. The result wasn't as intended, we now have the arch + noarch package
> > in the repos
> 
> That is another problem, exists for years in mandriva. maybe bugs in
> uploading script.
> 
> > --
> > Thomas