Hi Stephen. Your announcement happened to coincide with my finishing a fresh install on my primary system. Here are the statistics for the first handful of packages I installed:
URL Good Err Conn Speed Size Used CSpeed Qual pkg-na-2.o.o 17525 0 4 47 kB/s 452.42 MB True 0.128828 275 pkg.o.o 100 0 2 7 kB/s 203.82 kB True 0.132564 -46 Take care. --joanie On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 13:58 -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: > We've provisioned a second server group at a different site in North > America, with release/, dev/, and contrib/ available under > > http://pkg-na-2.opensolaris.org/ > > For instance, you can use > > # pkg set-publisher -m http://pkg-na-2.opensolaris.org/dev opensolaris.org > > to add this second location as a content mirror for the dev/ > repository. On the current dev/ branch, you can use -g to add this > repository as an additional origin for the opensolaris.org publisher. > A content mirror provides only package data, while an origin can > provide both package data and metadata (such as a catalog). > > In Package Manager, this functionality is available via the "File > > Manage Publishers" dialog. You add a mirror by selecting a publisher, > selecting Modify, and then selecting a repository in the resulting > "Modify Publisher" dialog, and then adding a mirror. > > (If you're curious to see the effect of adding a mirror or second > origin, then you can set PKG_DUMP_STATS to 1 in your environment, > prior to running a "pkg install" or "pkg image-update". We'd be > interested in seeing the statistics output, if you're able to share.) > > Happy downloading. > > - Stephen > _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
