[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Fri Oct 1 10:50:17 CEST 2010


Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 10:28 +0300, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
> Thomas Backlund skrev 1.10.2010 09:21:
> > Olivier Thauvin skrev 1.10.2010 04:32:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> > [...]
> >> The current full Mandriva mirror is more than 1,2 TB.
> >>
> >> So an immediate question come: should we try to reduce the size ?
> >>
> >> There are solutions, but they implies changes in our development
> >> process and have counter parts:
> >> - using hardlink between RPM:
> >>     - can be done for noarch inside a release
> >
> > Should be done.
> >
> 
> Oh, and this is why I have suggested from time to time to break noarch 
> out of arch trees, so:
> 
> SRPMS
> i586
> x86_64
> 
> would turn into:
> 
> SRPMS
> i586
> noarch
> x86_64

We can simply do a hardlink for this, so no space is wasted and no need
to have different directory ( of course, the hardlink must be done maybe
it is already the case, didn't check ).

> or given the -debug question even:
> 
> SRPMS
> debug
> i586
> noarch
> x86_64

-debug are arch specifics, no ?

-- 
Michael Scherer



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