You're completely right, it does not make sense. For a project I'm migrating in part to subversion, there is considerable overhead to bulk content files, think art and q3 bsp files as an example to where I'm going, and the issues just start at the latent overhead of the link, but it doesn't stop there. Providing something nearly 150 fold in size, requiring checksumming and possible delta comparison against the changes and so forth, especially considering potential demand of said files it prohibitively expensive on memory, disk i/o, cpu, and in effect response time.
James On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Moinak Ghosh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 2:10 PM, W. Wayne Liauh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> so there is no way to upgrade under this > >> circumstance? In future releases, can we have a > >> feature where a DVD of packages be released which can > >> be used as an offline repository? > >> Is it possible? Can it be taken up as a project? If > >> so, what technologies would I need to use? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Nischal E Rao > > > > What you can try is to use zfs to backup a snapshot of your current > os0805-based system to an external storage ("zfs send"), install the os0811 > LiveCD over your current system, then restore your snapshot ("zfs receive") > from the external storage. > > > > I also believe that in the not-to-distant future, someone will make DVDs > available which will contain images of repositories from which you can > update your OpenSolaris system without internet connection. In fact > Blastwave.org is already doing something similar with their pkg-get-based > packages. > > It is already possible for BeleniX, putting the repository on a > DVD. However due to a limitation > in the package manager one has to run a local Apache webserver > pointing the documentroot > to the DVD. This will be fixed in a couple of weeks. > > However does it make sense to provide large DVD ISOs of the repository ? > > Regards, > Moinak. > -- > ================================ > http://www.belenix.org/ > http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >
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