I've noticed that "pkg update --no-refresh" generates traffic while pkg is
"Creating Plan". A crude analysis of the traffic shows that it is doing a HEAD
request for each manifest. Is this some sort of a pre-flight check to be sure
the packages exist in the repo or a bug?
$ strings /tmp/snoop | egrep -e 'HEAD|GET|POST'
hHEAD
/dev/manifest/0/driver%2Fstorage%[email protected]%2C5.11-0.175.1.0.0.13.0%3A20120402T192416Z
HTTP/1.1
HEAD
/dev/manifest/0/x11%2Fdiagnostic%[email protected]%2C5.11-0.175.1.0.0.13.1262%3A20120403T072525Z
HTTP/1.1
HEAD
/dev/manifest/0/mail%[email protected]%2C5.11-0.175.1.0.0.13.754%3A20120403T041634Z
HTTP/1.1
HEAD
/dev/manifest/0/system%2Fmanagement%2Fvisual-panels%2Fpanel-smf%[email protected]%2C5.11-0.175.1.0.0.13.1007%3A20120403T065131Z
HTTP/1.1
HEAD
/dev/manifest/0/library%2Fgnome%[email protected]%2C5.11-0.175.1.0.0.12.0%3A20120319T194545Z
HTTP/1.1
HEAD
/dev/manifest/0/system%2Fmanagement%[email protected]%2C5.11-0.175.1.0.0.13.754%3A20120403T045012Z
HTTP/1.1
-HEAD
/dev/manifest/0/library%2Fpython-2%[email protected]%2C5.11-0.175.1.0.0.13.754%3A20120403T041120Z
HTTP/1.1
>HEAD
/dev/manifest/0/library%2Fpython-2%[email protected]%2C5.11-0.175.1.0.0.13.754%3A20120403T041124Z
HTTP/1.1
MHEAD
/dev/manifest/0/group%2Ffeature%[email protected]%2C5.11-0.175.1.0.0.13.0%3A20120403T134037Z
HTTP/1.1
...
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Mike Gerdts
Solaris Core OS / Zones http://blogs.oracle.com/zoneszone/
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