On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:25:23PM -0500, John Fiore wrote:
> > is there any documentation about using pkg_add over ssh
> > available yet? Can this feature be used with some of the
> > official mirrors?
>
> Just out of curiosity, why would you want to do this? pkg_add
> verifies the packages after downloading them. Is this some kind
> of firewalling issue?
As espie@ has said a couple of times now, pkg_add(1) over ssh is
much faster since it only uses one TCP connection. In my testing, it
has been much faster than similar operations over FTP and has
approached local disk reads in speed.
It's a real handy addition.
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