Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 12:46 +0200, Olivier Blin a écrit : > Michael Scherer <[email protected]> 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
