[advocacy-discuss] 2 Reviews

[Stephen Hahn]

* Shawn Walker <shawn.walker at sun.com> [2008-07-16 18:25]:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
>> * Philip Torchinsky <Philip.Torchinsky at sun.com> [2008-07-16 14:34]:
>>> 2. Update took 1 hour 20 minutes for me because pkg image-update 
>>> downloaded 1,5 G of data. It looked odd to me - download 1,5G to update a 
>>> system freshly installed with 640M CD.
>>
>>   Compression factors makes the comparisons here less than obvious.  The
>>   ISO image is compressed, so that 600 - 700 MB is actually 2 GB
>>   uncompressed.  pkg(1) reports the uncompressed size of the update (but
>>   downloads compressed data, so it's only pulling 500 MB or so over the
>>   network).
>
> I think that's probably something we should change. I was a little 
> surprised by this behaviour when I first used image-update myself. I was 
> expecting to report the size of what it was downloading not what it was 
> installing during the download phase.

  We'll need to store the compressed size on those actions with
  payloads, as well as the uncompressed size.  (And we might as well
  have a hash for the compressed payload, too.)  Care to file the bug(s)?

  - Stephen

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