[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 1 October 2010 16:59, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Of course this means some changes to the upload system
>> (installer / mirror manager should be simple as they read media.cfg)
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> 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.

I've already "converted" the bigger one in cooker from arched to noarch.
But remember that once we split the noarch subtree, it'll be a little
more difficult to:
- handle subpackages whose arch changed
- upload scripts may/will have a harder job to identify the target repository