On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Shawn Walker <swal...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Shawn Walker <swal...@opensolaris.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> Vikash Tulsiyan wrote: >>>> >>>> Do we have a " pkginfo -q" equivalent in IPS. I want to just check if a >>>> package is installed without all the details >>> >>> Check the return code of "pkg info <name>"; if it's 0, the package is >>> installed, otherwise it isn't installed. >> >> Apart from the minor irritant of having to throw away the output, >> using pkg is significantly more expensive, particularly for packages >> that are installed: >> >>> ptime pkginfo -q SUNWtcsh >> >> real 0.032076561 >> user 0.008303552 >> sys 0.017553991 >> >>> ptime pkg info SUNWtcsh >> >> real 2.317786366 >> user 1.105758292 >> sys 0.876040367 >> >>> ptime pkginfo -q froggle >> >> real 0.027556938 >> user 0.007866105 >> sys 0.016008880 >> >>> ptime pkg info froggle >> >> real 0.649661522 >> user 0.359215141 >> sys 0.252858754 >> >> It's sufficiently slow that using pkg to work out whether packages are >> or aren't installed isn't really a viable option. > > And which version of pkg or build of OpenSolaris are you using to do that?
128a > This is what I see: > > $ ptime pkg info SUNWtcsh > pkg: info: no packages matching the following patterns you specified are > installed on the system. Try specifying -r to query remotely: > > SUNWtcsh > > real 0.242818029 > user 0.199911385 > sys 0.042019782 > > ...but I'm running build 129. There have been major performance > improvements in pkg in recent builds. > > And sorry, but you're complaining about .64 seconds? Seriously? Absolutely. Do that multiple times across hundreds of servers and it becomes considerable. The conclusion is that you;ll avoid using pkg to determine whether a package is installed, but end up using some other mechanism, like checking for a file you hope will always be in the package. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
