All of the functionality you are requesting is already provided.
look at finish_up() in src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub.
There is no reason at all to modify pkg_add. Just setup /etc/pkg.conf.
On 2016 Jan 04 (Mon) at 04:02:07 -0600 (-0600), Luke Small wrote:
:I am realistically thinking more along the lines of less than once a
:release cycle. More like whenever it comes upon a user that their mirror of
:choice chooses to no longer be a mirror. I had that happen to me. It would
:be convenient to have a program that can easily compare mirror latencies
:and download speeds. I was hoping that maybe pkg_add could be modified to
:have a timeout and accept input from the program I am making if that
:occurs, or there is no mirror setup for the machine. If it is implemented,
:more generous bandwidth and lesser burdened mirrors would have more
:equitably distributed traffic.
:
:> What you meant was thousands of users sending handful of pings across the
:world to a lot of the mirrors each time they (re)restart pkg_add?
:
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