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The Solaris image packaging system is unrelated to the SysV packaging system that is used by several UNIX variants and that was enhanced over the last 35 years.

IPS was developed recently after the Sun people made the SysV packaging system network aware on my request and after the SysV packaging system got a major speed thrust from a new data base cache daemon.

The SysV packaging is package based and a package contains several files.

IPS is file based and wraps nano-packages around each file and thus suffers from a latency problem. There have been reports that a Solaris install from a DSL line in Bangalore or from a DVD takes one week due to the TCP connection latency or due to the seek times of the DVD drive.

So the theoretical advantage from IPS (it contains a ELF specific hash code generator that only looks adat the loadable parts of a binary) does not help.

When IPS was created, it was named Internet Packet Lottery by some Swiss Banks that tried to install several hundreds of PCs at the same time but got many different installations because the package repository was updated continuously.

So you see another important issue to look at: Installing from the network may cause "stability" problems if you cannot control the content of the repository.

The Solaris image packaging system is unrelated to the SysV packaging system that is used by several UNIX variants and that was enhanced over the last 35 years.

IPS was developed recently after the Sun people made the SysV packaging system network aware on my request and after the SysV packaging system got a major speed thrust from a new data base cache daemon.

The SysV packaging is package based and a package contains several files.

IPS is file based and wraps nano-packages around each file and thus suffers from a latency problem. There have been reports that a Solaris install from a DSL line in Bangalore or from a DVD takes one week due to the TCP connection latency or due to the seek times of the DVD drive.

So the theoretical advantage from IPS (it contains a ELF specific hash code generator that only looks ad the loadable parts of a binary) does not help.

When IPS was created, it was named Internet Packet Lottery by some Swiss Banks that tried to install several hundreds of PCs at the same time but got many different installations because the package repository was updated continuously.

So you see another important issue to look at: Installing from the network may cause "stability" problems if you cannot control the content of the repository.

The Solaris image packaging system is unrelated to the SysV packaging system that is used by several UNIX variants and that was enhanced over the last 35 years.

IPS was developed recently after the Sun people made the SysV packaging system network aware on my request and after the SysV packaging system got a major speed thrust from a new data base cache daemon.

The SysV packaging is package based and a package contains several files.

IPS is file based and wraps nano-packages around each file and thus suffers from a latency problem. There have been reports that a Solaris install from a DSL line in Bangalore or from a DVD takes one week due to the TCP connection latency or due to the seek times of the DVD drive.

So the theoretical advantage from IPS (it contains a ELF specific hash code generator that only looks at the loadable parts of a binary) does not help.

When IPS was created, it was named Internet Packet Lottery by some Swiss Banks that tried to install several hundreds of PCs at the same time but got many different installations because the package repository was updated continuously.

So you see another important issue to look at: Installing from the network may cause "stability" problems if you cannot control the content of the repository.

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The Solaris image packaging system is unrelated to the SysV packaging system that is used by several UNIX variants and that was enhanced over the last 35 years.

IPS was developed recently after the Sun people made the SysV packaging system network aware on my request and after the SysV packaging system got a major speed thrust from a new data base cache daemon.

The SysV packaging is package based and a package contains several files.

IPS is file based and wraps nano-packages around each file and thus suffers from a latency problem. There have been reports that a Solaris install from a DSL line in Bangalore or from a DVD takes one week due to the TCP connection latency or due to the seek times of the DVD drive.

So the theoretical advantage from IPS (it contains a ELF specific hash code generator that only looks ad the loadable parts of a binary) does not help.

When IPS was created, it was named Internet Packet Lottery by some Swiss Banks that tried to install several hundreds of PCs at the same time but got many different installations because the package repository was updated continuously.

So you see another important issue to look at: Installing from the network may cause "stability" problems if you cannot control the content of the repository.