Hello, There was a lot of threads about mirroring of the repositories for people that wants to update more then one computer and/or install few packages on more then one computer.
I was wondering (while waiting for my image-update to finish :) :) ) if in such case it could be useful to add option to only download files to the "/var/pkg/download/" directory ? >From the user perspective it would work as follows (pkg image-update case): -d for "download only" pkg image-update -d then copy the directory "/var/pkg/download/" to as many computers as possible or maybe even share this through nfs/cifs/whatever set the download path let's say: export PKG_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/net/someserver/download and on each computer re-run the command: pkg image-update This would validate if all the files are there and would not download those files twice from the net. Moreover we could provide zfs snapshot not of the repository but "/var/pkg/download/" directory with most of the files for updates and if someone had other application installed only those bits would be downloaded, so there would be much less network traffic. thoughts ??? best Michal Pryc _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
