Peter Tribble wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 15:51, Gary M. Gere wrote: > >>> Anyone know offhand how the package install order is determined? >>> >> The order in which packages are installed is influenced by the dependencies >> each package >> declares in the "depend(4)" file. The remaining order is non-deterministic - >> for initial install it is >> typically the order in which the packages are declared in the clustertoc, >> for a zone install it is the >> order in which the packages are returned when reading the "/var/sadm/pkg" >> directory. >> > > OK. So I rewrote /var/sadm/pkg so that the packages should get returned > in > size order, just to see what difference it makes to a zone install. > > And it does make a slight difference. Package installation time went > from > just over 6 minutes to just over 5; total disk writes fell from 6.5G to > 4.1G. > > But it's still mangling the install order quite considerably. > > Unfortunately I don't think LU (I think zone creation calls > lucreatezone) > has been opened yet. Nor the main installer. So it's hard for me to > investigate this part any further. > You can enable debugging messages for zone creation - edit /etc/default/lu and append this line:
LU_DEBUG_STATE=zon,xpi,cli then install a zone - you will see a lot of debugging output on exactly what happens during a zone creation. -GmG
