[OpenIndiana-discuss] what do pkg install phases mean?

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 05/03/2023 18:42, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
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>> On Mar 5, 2023, at 12:12, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 4:19 PM Till Wegmüller <toasterson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi
>>>
>>> IPS works on images of the OS. And it does so in an Atomic way. Speed is
>>> not the main goal. Stability is.
>>>....
>>
>> The emphasis on performance can be seen in several areas of the design -
>> downloading
>> and updating just the files you need rather than whole packages;
>> eliminating the overhead
>> of maintaining the shared contents file.
>>
>> It's unfortunate that the original aim of improving performance got lost
>> along the way.
>>
>> -- 
>> -Peter Tribble
>> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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> 
> Yes...I wasn't badmouthing IPS, just noting that compared to e.g. well-supported  > and maintained Linux distros (Kali Linux has impressed me recently), 
 > it's slow.
 >....

In fact, most of the phases are really fast (as can be verified with
pkg update -v), the competition is lost when it comes to the phase
'Building new search index', which is much slower than everything
before summed up. So concentrating the effort to this phase alone
could be already sufficient to speed it up a lot.