* Olivier Blin ([email protected]) wrote: > Michael Scherer <[email protected]> writes: > > >> 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 ? > > Why would they be unsynced? > If we have a separate directory for noarch, it could be shared by all > arches, which means there would be no such unsync issue.
The problem will occurs if new noarch come from i586/x86_64 whereas another arch is no longer updated. Some dependencies will get broken between noarch <=> arch rpms (foo -arch- requires bar = 1 -noarch- and bar get update to version 2 for exemple). > > -- > Olivier Blin - blino -- Olivier Thauvin CNRS - LATMOS ♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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