[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch

[Anssi Hannula]

On 02.09.2011 21:15, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
> Op vrijdag 02 september 2011 16:50:00 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
>> On 2 September 2011 14:06, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
>>> It would help would be by having smaller hdlists, but I am not sure it
>>> would really help mirror so much. ( ie, I would not say "lots of space"
>>> even if that still a saving )
>>
>> Actualy hdlist are pretty much unused these days.
>> urpmi (and thus the installer) doesn't use them any longer for quite a few
>> years already (at least since 2007 or 2008).
>>
>> At that time, we only kept those big babies for:
>> - users adding media from older distro for live upgrading but:
>>   1) all mdv distros since 4 years handle that
>>   2) we don't support upgrading from anything <2010
>> - some test tools (don't remember which one) that nobody use still parse
>> them
>>
>> That's why network BW usage by urpmi is small for checking media (checking
>> if MD5SUM still matches then download small synthesis if needed)
>> That doesn't change the amount of RAM and the CPU time needed to parse
>> & compute updates but thats' another story...
>>
>> We could try to disable hdlists from cauldron mirrors and see who's crying
>> (I guess nobody will)
> 
> isn't hdlists still necessary for urpmf and urmq ? (I don't know, i'm just 
> asking)

No.

xml-info is used for the data not found in synthesis.

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Anssi Hannula