I am concerned about moving /var/pkg/download to a read-only FS on the liveCD. Please make sure that any approach you choose does not prevent a user from downloading a new pkg from the repository.
I would like to understand the impact of not having this cache on a freshly installed system. -Sanjay Karen Tung wrote: > I am working on bug 2263. > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=226 > > Because of the way the microroot for the liveCD > is constructed in the Distro Constructor, > the recent introduction of the download cache in IPS caused > the microroot to overflow. > > I started fixing the problem by not putting the download cache > into the microroot at all. This fixed the microroot overflow problem. > > I didn't delete the download cache from the proto area, because > I thought that it might be useful for IPS somehow. Unfortunately, > I found that because the download cache info is stored > in a large number of directories inside /var/pkg, the archiving of the > /var directory in the liveCD is failing. The Distro Constructor > put everything inside the /var directory into a ISO file using > the mkisofs command. The mkisofs command has a limitation of > only allowing 2^16 directories. Because the of large number > of directories introduced by the download cache, we now > have 68724 directories. > > Unless the download cache feature is going to change its > implementation to not use that many directories, the only > way to fix the problem is to go with the change that > Ginnie has a few days ago: simply remove the download cache > in the proto area. > > Since I am not very familiar with the download cache, can the > experts comment on whether removing it in the LiveCD will > affect the performance of IPS in anyway after the LiveCD is installed? > Any other suggestions on solving this problem? > > Thanks, > > --Karen > > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
