[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

[Olivier Blin]

Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> writes:

>> 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 ).

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).

BTW, we could also consider migrating to a PLF-like tree structure,
which looks better structured:

media/
  main/
    release/
      binary/
        noarch/
        arch1/
        arch2/
        ...
      debug/
        arch1/
        arch2/
        ...
      source/
    testing/
      ...
    updates/
      ...
    backports/
  contrib/
     ...
  non-free/
     ...

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Olivier Blin - blino