I'm in the process of updating a 2008.11 system to 2009.06 over the last couple days and I've been having a lot of problems that I'm hoping someone could help me with.
Firstly, creating the plan takes a looooong time. This is despite having at least 3G of free RAM, no swapping and 99% idle CPU. What's more frustrating is that everytime I rerun the pfexec pkg image-update command (due to the timeout failures I'll come onto) it recalculates the plan. This can take upto an hour despite no changes occurring between plans. Secondly, pkg.opensolaris.org/release times out on downloading randomly and the d/l speed is appalling. This doesn't seem to be a networking issue (as far as I can see into internap) as the RTT and Std Dev are very respectable given the geographics (I'm in the UK). It's that bad that out of frustration with the continued slow d/l speeds, on one attempt I also pulled the iso image from genunix and can pull the whole 677MB image in about the same time as 20Mb of downloading from the repository. I've even tried increasing the PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT value with no noticeable affect. So to summarize my questions:- 1) Is anyone else having problems with this? 2) Is there any suggestions as to how to improve the d/l speed? 3) Is there any way to skip the "Creating Plan" stage to move straight into the d/l phase? 4) Though I'm fairly sure the answer is no, are there any mirrors of pkg.opensolaris.org? 5) Is there anyway to pull the packages I need from the DVD Iso? Many thanks for your help and suggestions! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
