[indiana-discuss] 3.1) Installation

[Glynn Foster]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> On 6/15/07, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As a minor amusement, I worked out how much space is used by the
>> various install clusters in Solaris. (You can get the package space from
>> pkginfo -l, but the package tools aren't aware of the install clusters.)
>>
>> I've done this for two machines: an Ultra 20 with preinstalled Solaris 10
>> that I unpacked today, and an old sparc machine running current SXCE.
>> (I don't have an x86 machine with SXCE right now.) The lists are
>> sorted by cluster size in bytes, largest first.
>>
>> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/clustersizes.s10.x86
>> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/clustersizes.s11.sparc
> 
> Thanks to Dave Miner I've now got the same list for an x86 SXCE
> system:
> 
> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/clustersizes.s11.x86

More of a curiosity than anything else, but I've just been playing with Glenn's
script a little bit -

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/svr4_packaging/package_companion/

and hacking it to output the format used in graphviz [http://www.graphviz.org/].

I didn't learn much other than what you've already pointed out in your blog
about having a few reasonably small metaclusters and then some massive ones.

http://www.gnome.org/~gman/metacluster-cluster-mapping.png

Shows the relationships of the SUNWCreq metacluster, and maps out the
metacluster-cluster-package dependencies. I haven't done package to package
dependencies because this is where my machine runs out of memory, so there's
likely to be low level packages missing from that graph.


Glynn