Peter, Peter Tribble wrote: > Glenn, > > This note is to announce the new Solaris Package Companion project >> page (child of the SVR4 packaging project page) at: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/svr4_packaging/package_companion/ >> >> Check it out to get all of the latest and greatest information, usage >> instructions, code and examples. >> >> Love to hear what you think! > > > Interesting. I've got something similar inside solview. > > One thing I note is that spc is very slow. On my opteron box > it took about 3 minutes to create the repository. Now solview > can get the full dependency information in about 10-15 seconds > on a cold system (that's roughly how long it takes to open 1000 > depend files off disk, so it's within expectations - I haven't > tried it against a DVD which may well be much slower).
A one time performance hit (measured in a few minutes) is not a bit deal (at least for me). Once collected, the typical response time quite good and often near instantaneous (which is when the response time really matters). Call it a design trade- off if you like. Keep in mind that this is a work in progress and not "official" code. It was working for me and I wanted to share it in the hopes that others might find it useful. If you have a tool that works for you - that is great too! Honestly, what I really want is for functionality like this to get into Solaris proper at some point and integrated with the installation, packaging and patching tools (but I digress)... *grin* g
