[OpenIndiana-discuss] Questions about /var/pkg

[Goetz T. Fischer]

oh yes, that is the case for any kind of upgrades because while ips is still rotating the slash, the 
others are half-way through already. i've done rhel upgrades after 1 1/2 years and they were 
significantly faster than ips upgrades after a month.
just because they handle download and extraction of the packages differently doesn't mean the total time 
is better. what matters is how long it takes in total.

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:41:58 +0000, aurelien.larcher at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.