On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:17:39PM +0100, Nick Kew wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: >> I'm sorry we've taken so much of your bandwidth. We're still ironing out >> the kinks in this, and obviously we still have a ways to go. We do now >> have a download cache which should at least prevent you from downloading >> bits you've already downloaded every time you re-try the same operation. > > Thanks. I didn't find the documentation on how to get pkg to > use this cache, and a couple of try-it-and-see guesses resulted > in pkg telling me it had the full amount to download.
In recent versions (since mid-June), it's there and on by default. In fact, you can't turn it off. If you have the latest published version of SUNWipkg, it should be there. If you send me the output of "pkg version", I can confirm whether you should have the feature or not. Danek
