[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 16:59:30 CEST 2010


Op vrijdag 01 oktober 2010 09:28:28 schreef Thomas Backlund:
> Thomas Backlund skrev 1.10.2010 09:21:
[...]
> SRPMS
> debug
> i586
> noarch
> x86_64
> 
> 
> And then add to the Mirroring FAQ (for endusers) that you need noarch in
> addition to the arch you want to mirror.
> 
> Of course this means some changes to the upload system
> (installer / mirror manager should be simple as they read media.cfg)


actually, imo, noarch could be a real savior. i see that quite some packages 
are i586 on mandriva, but in reality could be made noarch.

also, i notice that if there is a small fix somewhere, alot of dependant 
package are being rebuilt. disregarding packaging requirements and version 
update, there is no real requirement.

it would make things complex, but either we could take a look at some way of 
having dependant package able to use the older versions. Or even more complex, 
a sort of meta-package that holds no content, only a version nr and a referral 
to the previous version. (imo, this would make it far too complex, thought)


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