Op vrijdag 02 september 2011 16:50:00 schreef Thierry Vignaud: > On 2 September 2011 14:06, Michael Scherer <m...@zarb.org> wrote: > > It would help would be by having smaller hdlists, but I am not sure it > > would really help mirror so much. ( ie, I would not say "lots of space" > > even if that still a saving ) > > Actualy hdlist are pretty much unused these days. > urpmi (and thus the installer) doesn't use them any longer for quite a few > years already (at least since 2007 or 2008). > > At that time, we only kept those big babies for: > - users adding media from older distro for live upgrading but: > 1) all mdv distros since 4 years handle that > 2) we don't support upgrading from anything <2010 > - some test tools (don't remember which one) that nobody use still parse > them > > That's why network BW usage by urpmi is small for checking media (checking > if MD5SUM still matches then download small synthesis if needed) > That doesn't change the amount of RAM and the CPU time needed to parse > & compute updates but thats' another story... > > We could try to disable hdlists from cauldron mirrors and see who's crying > (I guess nobody will)
isn't hdlists still necessary for urpmf and urmq ? (I don't know, i'm just asking)