[OmniOS-discuss] About creating a repository mirror

[Sriram Narayanan]

Hi Theo,

I missed out on this. Could you make a zfs snapshot available for
download, please ? This would save a lot of time, and would be a
useful way of distributing package repos.

Thanks.

-- Sriram

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Theo Schlossnagle <jesus at omniti.com> wrote:
> The pkgrecv stuff is latency sensitive, so it can take a while.  It
> network efficient, just not time efficient.
>
> We already have ZFS snaps of all the releases, so making those
> available is something we could look into.
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
>> On 9/18/2012 9:02 AM, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
>>>
>>> I think it is as easy as doing this:
>>>
>>> pkgrecv -s http://pkg.omniti.com/omnios/release/ -d
>>> http://yourserver:yourport/ 'pkg:/*'
>>>
>>> If you are looking for something a bit more efficient than that, we
>>> might be able to arrange for ZFS sends and incrementals.
>>
>>
>> Define exactly how inefficient pkgrecv is? I wouldn't mind doing this myself
>> and don't mind a little inefficiency so long as it isn't too bad. :)
>>
>> rsync pull access might be a good option as well.
>>
>> -brian
>>
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