Hi folks, we have a new experimental pkg site up and running in Europe, Prague in particular, to decrease latency and download times for pkg operations in Europe.
The site incorporates a caching proxy server and can be used as a content mirror or an origin. It's URL is pkg-eu-2.opensolaris.org and it serves the /dev, /release and /contrib repo. To set up the pkg client to use this site as an origin you can use # pkg set-publisher -g http://pkg-eu-2.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org or # pkg set-publisher -m http://pkg-eu-2.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org to use it as a content mirror. So far most of the content for an install or image-update will be cached so the download times for people in Europe should be improved. However, there is still metadata which can't be cached but the pkg team is working on improvements in this area. So don't be surprised if you don't see a speed-up of the planning phase at the moment. If you have multiple origins configured you can see how much each of these is utilized by setting PKG_DUMP_STATS=1 for your environment: # PKG_DUMP_STATS=1 pkg image-update Feel free to use pkg-eu-2.opensolaris.org as your main origin and let us know if you experience any problems (just send an email to [email protected]). Erik _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
