I suppose folks could opt for the more stable yet higher latency official mirrors even if they aren't local to canada and they would never be surprised. It may not be too much trouble for me to implement a mere stdout statement in the perl pkg-add to advise the user to update PKG-PATH to randomly offer one of the official mirrors as the PKG-PATH (as an easy to implement fix) and steer the user to install a web-browser to discover the current list of http/ftp package mirrors if Firefox or lynx exists on the system; since they don't by default. It wouldn't be too dissimilar to the kind of messages delivered by pkg-add itself to rm folder contents at the end of a run.
On 12/25/15, Luke Small <lukensm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I suspect that if you did, it wouldn't check whether there was an > astronaut ready to control the on-board computer and would sit there > continuously trying to rev the rocket engines with no jet fuel. That > is the way pkg-add acts right now. I felt pretty ridiculous wondering > why pkg-add wasn't working only to figure out I was working with a > mirror that was no longer active this week. > > On 12/24/15, Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote: >>>I wanna make a c program that checks for a PKG_PATH that exists and >>>connects to a workable link for pkg_add(). >> >> and I wanna build a rocket ship... >> > > > -- > -Luke > -- -Luke
