Since cooker has been defrosted, perhaps this is the right moment to discuss putting the .noarch.rpm packages into a seperate (shared) location. This is already being done at PLF, see:
ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandrake/cooker
With the recent upload of a number of rather large noarch.rpm packages:
$ ls -Sl /mirrors/contrib/i586/ | less
total 2927844
*-rw-rw-r-- 1 stefan build 136673076 Nov 5 16:09 uqm-data-0.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm*
*-rw-rw-r-- 1 stefan build 122147932 Nov 5 16:09 vegastrike-data-0.4.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stefan build 77352529 Oct 28 19:46 flightgear-0.9.3-1mdk.i586.rpm
*-rw-rw-r-- 1 stefan build 67695745 Mar 11 2003 tetex-cmsuper-0.3.3-2mdk.noarch.rpm*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stefan build 60821073 Feb 28 2003 ncbi-tools-6.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 stefan build 56017805 Oct 28 01:00 freedroidRPG-0.9.9-1mdk.i586.rpm
*-rw-rw-r-- 1 stefan build 54203818 Nov 5 16:09 vegastrike-data-music-0.3.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm
*
it's becoming evident that a lot of bandwidth and space is being wasted on the mirrors. Of the (7) packages in contrib above 50Mb, 4 of them are noarch.rpm's. I'll bet a case of Grolsch that the other ones can also be split up into (large) noarch.rpm and (smaller) <arch>.rpm packages.
How did PLF do it? How is it working there (comments please!)? Can this be implemented for cooker (and the 10.0 release)?
regards,
Stefan van der Eijk
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