[advocacy-discuss] 2 Reviews

[Shawn Walker]

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.

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