[OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg folder size escalated

[Till Wegmüller]

The Software and packaging framework to make packages is roughly the 
same though features have diverged even inbetween illumos distros 
(although a merge is planned there) The package graph however ist 
completely distro dependant. And also different illumos gat forks like 
illumos-omnios have differing package manifests that change the package 
graph extremely.

The specific difference you are describing is purely due to our package 
manifests not having received a major update to split up SUNWCS. Solaris 
finished that migration post source closure/fork. illumos-omnios also 
has updated manifests so omnios will have a smaller chache of files. 
Please also note that linked zones share this cache and it is used to 
restore your system with pkg fix although anything missing will be 
downloaded. In case of openindiana since we are rolling release there is 
however a chance that you'll have to upgrade first before having all 
files available to download and fix the system when a diskoutage too 
your root pool down.

We would be quite happy if somebody started carrying the torch in 
bringing those package manifest changes upstream into illumos from 
illumos-omnios.

-Till


On 18.05.23 11:39, Goetz T. Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2023 11:59:52 +0300, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> those numbers are meaningless without checking what is inside of those files.
> 
> sure, but only to some extend. it's both ips. unless of course illumos did a massive rewrite there and
> just kept the name for historical reasons. and the options and the messages and the package format and
> ... you get the idea :-)
> 
>> illumos (openindiana) is not solaris. The systems are different and we are not intending
>> to be free clone of Solaris.
> 
> i know what illumos is and where it came from and i didn't imply it had to be the same either. my
> question was about the size of the pkg folder and that i think it's too big. which then turned out to be
> right considering the solution with flush-content-cache-on-success and its result. the latter should be
> True by default if i may suggest that.
> as for the size, i think even the original solaris pkg folder is too big for that number of packages.
> looking at rhel for example i see 65mb for 485 packages. of course that depends on what packages they
> are but it does give a rough estimate.
> 
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