[install-discuss] a couple live upgrade questions

[Bart Smaalders]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:17 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
>>  Yes, that should work, but (in general) I don't recommend attempting
>>  to "minimize" the system by removing packages.  It ends up being
>>  extremely painful to craft a custom set of packages for desired
>>  features.
>>
>>  Instead, just turn off the things you don't want.  Disk space is
>>  cheap, and your time isn't.
> 
> Indeed. Disk space is cheap, time isn't.
> 
> In particular, manifest import time is a killer. 12 minutes per zones,
> you gotta be kidding.
> 

Largely fixed in build 84 of Nevada....

6351623 Initial manifest-import is slow

- Bart



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