It seems that many of the use cases of mirrors for IPS repos are in the interest of supporting multiple local machines without multiple downloads of the same files from the public repositories.
I notice by looking at proxy logs that most (all?) of the file fetches by pkg are using the POST method, which means that they can't be cached by a proxy server. I've not looked at the code, but from the layout of the files in a local repo and the content of the manifests I infer that the files are fetched by hash, which seems like the kind of thing that could be put into a URL for a GET request. Has any thought been given to using GET rather than POST for the files to improve intermediate cachability? Boyd _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
