[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Sun Oct 3 17:09:39 CEST 2010


Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 12:46 +0200, Olivier Blin a écrit :
> 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).

But this requires all arch to be synced.
While we achieved this for x86 and x86_64, this was not the case in the
past for sparc and ppc. Given the fact that arm is surely gonna play a
important role, what would be the impact on various non synced ports of
Mageia, if any ? 



-- 
Michael Scherer



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