Re: [Pkgutil-users] pkgutil package install/available mismatch

[Peter B. <bon...@op...>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Rob Ruma <rr...@fa...> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>        After doing more testing with pkgutil as a package provider for puppet,
> I've discovered that using the true package name to call packages works
> just fine. Although, I have noticed that manifests referencing many
> packages does take considerably longer to process compared to pkg-get.

Do you mean when there are many dependencies?

When pkg-get installs it doesn't check dependencies at all, it just
downloads the requested package, unpacks it and then check if there
are dependencies to add, this repeats recursively.

It's of course faster not to do something than doing it but normally
download and install is like 90-99% of the time spent.

I just tried with Firefox on a 10 year old Sparc and it calculated the
dependencies in 2 seconds. Gnome, however, took 2 minutes. On a
relatively modern x86 server it took 1s and 30s respectively.

-- 
/peter