During some tests I discoverred some things I want to share for improvement.
It's an addition to the comments here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2008-June/004051.html 1. It should be possible to limit the access to a pkg.depotd on a IP-Adress base. So people can limit who will use their repository. Or should ipfilter be used here ? Who has an example that could used ? (Ok having all open is the standard ;-) 2. pkg.depotd should have an option to switch off the logging. Otherwise it will create a lot output into smf log-files or on the console. Ok this output is very useful for debugging purposes, but not for "production" when providing packages for a lot of clients. 3. The packagemanager uses $LANG to search in /usr/share/locale for tons of localized files, which do not exists. So this search really takes time and makes packagemanager much slower. A workaround right now it to just unset $LANG in the shell before starting packagemanager. 4. If I select in packagemanager everything to install and start install, the packagemanager downloads all ~ 2 GB and then starts to install. But then nothing more happens. I have to kill packagemanager and start smaller. If I install packages in smaller parts, all is fine. 5. On a new start of packagemanager, it get from authority the catalog file and all manifests. This makes the startup slow. It could be faster on the second startup of packagemanager just to get the catalog again and compare if there are changes since the last get. 6. If I add a authority to the packagemanager I have to choose the repository in the gui and then have to press reload. To get an update list in the gui I have then to stop packagemanager and restart the packagemanager - but only for the first time. Just after the second startup after pressing the "reload button", packagemanager starts to download the manifests from the new authority and shows this in the gui. ... So far some comments. Detlef _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
