[OpenIndiana-discuss] Questions about /var/pkg

[aurelien.larcher at gmail.com]

Le Samedi 13 janvier 2024, Goetz T. Fischer a écrit :
> i don't know about plain apt but aptitude, yum or zypper are lightyears faster than ips no matter how 
> many updates are pending.

No that is the not the case for large upgrades.
The reason is that apt/yum and the likes unpack each tarball sequentially and process pre/post install scripts.


> 
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 18:07:49 +0000, aurelien.larcher at gmail.com wrote:
> > IPS scales better w.r.t the number of packages installed and therefore is faster than apt for large 
> > upgrades.
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