Boyd Adamson wrote: > 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? >
As J. pointed out, the answer is yes... the reason we're doing post right now is that the current package we're using to retrieve files didn't support multiple pending requests, so fetching lots of small files was unacceptably slow... J. is changing the code to use pycurl so that we can go back to using GET requests... - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [email protected] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
