For me you can kill it with fire. Currently urpmi and friends do have support for hdlist.cz but as you have written it is not used anymore for like 7 years.
2014-03-31 10:02 GMT+02:00 Denis Silakov <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > As many of you can likely notice, package publishing in ABF usually takes > relatively significant time - about several minutes (sometimes up to 10 > minutes). > > One of the time-consuming tasks in the publishing is generation of > hdlist.cz file - this is a huge file containing internal urpm > representation of metadata, including file lists, package descriptions, > etc. This file seems to be redundant - nowadays we generate additional xml > files (changelog.xml, info.xml, etc.) which in combination with lightweight > synthesis.hdlist.cz provide the same information. However, I am not so > familiar with hdlist.cz and can't guarantee that nothing will be lost if > we completely drop it. > > So the question is - can somebody say what will we lost (if any) if we > drop hdlist.cz files? Or maybe we should just try and see? > > -- > Denis Silakov, ROSA Laboratory. > www.rosalab.ru > > >
