i had fun building clangd a few days ago. it was actually very straight forward, but took a while. that one doesn't seem to be in oi though..

hpqoue - you're right, it is just ipkg zones that need to be detached.

Oh, they've gone

hadfl told me about the us-west mirror, and I'm fussy, so I'm putting stuff here

1) the web page says it's a mirror, which in pkg-land is bad for reasons. Is that true, or is it a full origin?

if so, the web page should say -g not -m in `pkg set-publisher -m us-west.mirror.omnios.org/r151044/core omnios` (omnios.org/info/ipsrepos)

also, at least back in the day, pkg worked hard to pick the fastest mirror/origin from among those configured, so if you configured it in by default it should Just Work

oh it maybe _is_ a pure mirror?

hadfl tells me it is indeed a mirror, if that's not on purpose, a full origin is better (but you can't get metrics as easily, because you're not the sole source of truth about the catalog)

which is why Sun did mirrors that way

but the important part of the suggestion is that if you add mirrors etc by default, pkg should be clever, so there shouldn' be a downside

richlowe - so, you came full circle and everything's ok? :)

It is deliberately a mirror

hadfl told me it's a mirror on purpose, I still think configuring it by default is good?

pkg should be smart

It seems to do the right thing there when I test it, including using whatever responds quickest

which for me can easily be the US rather than Switzerland on some days!

yeah, it should use the best, and use them in parallel etc.

Good point, we can look at adding it by default (or via an installer option that defaults to on)

is it possible for me to host my own mirror locally?

see the pkgrecv manual page

noted

I'm not actually sure about mirror in the pkg sense, but pkgrecv a (subset of) the repo will give you something you can use

I do it to avoid hammering the servers for disk images and such.

there's a pretty decent example in the arm64-gate Makefile if you just want to throw something together.

I know some linux pkg managers let you rsync to mirror a repo

opensolaris, and maybe oi, used to have rsync. I'm not sure if anyone still does

I will take a look

and you have to get the whole repo with rsync, pkgrecv you can choose specific bits

I think the pkg/mirror service works to some extent too - or at least I did fix it up at one point

but it's probably better just to have a `pkgrecv -m latest` cron job

andyf: i saw you replied to my question in the logs, thanks. for the record the upgrade went flawlessly

though i am curious about having to set the publisher in sparse and lipkg zones, since i thought sparse and lipkg zones use the pkg tree from the global zone, and as such i feel like it would inherit such settings

hpqoeu - they share things like the content of /usr with the global zone, but they are still their own IPS image.

You can use `pkg set-publisher -r` from the GZ to set the publisher in all NGZs as well as the GZ.