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[p2-dev] Improving download speed
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One thing that I discovered when working on "Mirror ranking needs to be
improved" [1] (I'd like some input on the patch) was that the actual
meta-data is never downloaded from a mirror. I can understand why since
the actual mirrorsURL is in the repository, but it got me thinking.
One increasingly common scenario is to use composites to include
history. All references in these composites are relative. So why don't
we allow a mirrorsURL in the composite? If we did, all the referenced
meta-data could be fetched from the mirrors. That would mean a serious
improvement for those of us that rely heavily on the mirrors.
Another thought is that perhaps we should have some kind manifest file?
I think this has been discussed before but I was not able to find the
bugzilla. The repository manager could make an attempt to load a
specific file, p2.mf or similar, that would contain information about
how to read the update site content. This manifest would typically be
very small and contain information such as:
1. The format of the repositories (so that no scan is needed for
compositeContent.jar, compositeContent.xml, content.jar, content.xml, etc.)
2. Name of the repositories (for quick browsing)
3. Location.
4. MirrorsURL.
5. (optional) Meta-requirements for reading the repository and a pointer
to another repository that provides the needed artifacts. Done right,
this could be the mechanism to use to ensure forward and backward
compatibility.
With that in place, only a few hundred bytes would be needed before the
mirror mechanism kicks in.
Thoughs?
[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=297805