On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:09:27 -0600 Luke Small <lukensm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
talk is cheap. if you see a problem, show a fix instead of talking about it. (i am really starting to feel for the devs. this gets wearying.) so lynx is gone, but you don't need to install a web browser. ftp(1) is in base and functions quite well. you want the mirrors? ftp -o - http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html | more will display the html source of the page, which is pretty easy to read even unrendered. if you wanted to format it better, you could do: ftp -o - http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html | \ sed -n \ -e 's:</a>$::' \ -e 's: <strong>\([^<]*\)<.*:\1 :p' \ -e 's:^\( [hfr].*\):\1:p' (all whitespace in the above sed are single tabs, copy & paste will not work) will display them all (http,ftp,rsync) as below: Australia (Adelaide) http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/OpenBSD/ Australia (Brisbane) http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD/ Australia (Perth) http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/OpenBSD/ ... if you want to test a mirror, just use ftp's return value as below: ftp -VM -o /dev/null $MIRROR && echo "$MIRROR" >>good-mirrors or if you had a list of possible mirrors (in file 'mirrors'): for MIRROR in $(< mirrors); do ftp -VM -o /dev/null $MIRROR && echo "$MIRROR" done >good-mirrors whenever i want something to work the way i want, i just script around it. the beauty of unix. > > 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 mirror that was no longer active this week.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
