[OpenIndiana-discuss] Questions about /var/pkg

[aurelien.larcher at gmail.com]

Le Samedi 13 janvier 2024, Goetz T. Fischer a écrit :
> 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.

Probably a difference in hardware then.
I performed comparisons on same hardware some years ago.
Regardless of what you can expect from implementation there are actual complexity estimates that would disagree.
 
> 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.
> 
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