Thanks very much, Johansen. Yes, this would be a good reason for us to support repository in future releases.
I just have one concern that our packages are very big, some packages are over 800M. that's the reason we decided to still use DVD and include all packages with archive(p5p) format in the coming release. I am not sure whether the performance is still acceptable for customers if we put the packages on external repository server for such big size packages. Thanks, Ervin. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 2011年12月29日 5:25 To: Ervin Yan Cc: Shawn Walker; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [pkg-discuss] 'pkg install' performance issue Hi Ervin: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:33:33AM -0800, Ervin Yan wrote: > Since our customers may only need 4 of the packages for basic > functions, and need not download the whole image from our production > server, and to provide consistent customer experiences with other > platforms, we decided to use separate p5p file for different > packages, like rpm file on Linux, and bff file on AIX. Bart and Shawn already covered a number of these points, but if you'd prefer to avoid having your customers download the entire image just to install a subset, an external respository is the way to go. This has the added benefit that on upgrade operations your customers will only have to download the content that changed between releases. Depending upon how this is managed, you can speed up upgrades a lot, since you typicially don't need to replace every installed component. It's also possible for the HTTP repositories to interoperate with CDNs and web caches, which allows your content to potentially get closer to users, which also decreases their download times. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
