On 2016-01-20, Luke Small <thinkitdoitd...@gmail.com> wrote: > with /etc/pkg.conf, you can > actually specify several mirrors: > > installpath = ... > installpath += ... > > I'm not sure if that downloads from multiple mirrors at a time or if there > is failover.
Failover. It's mostly used for pointing at a local server or something like mtier's stable package repository first, and falling back to a standard mirror for things which the preferred one doesn't have. With snapshots, you can't rely on all mirrors having the same versions of files, even if the filename is the same, so you can't mix and match between them and downloading from multiple mirrors at a time wouldn't work. This is why we can't use a traditional location-aware dns load balancer setup for this, because it might change the mirror part-way through a pkg_add run,
