Hmm.. as often I wondered what I should do. This one is so simple that I had to say it.
I came up with "ftp http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html"; And then cat the file. It gives a fairly readable list. Then there is only one easy URL to remember. gr Renzo > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:48:45 +0300 > Subject: Re: lynx: disable old protocols > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > > Thank you Bob and Stuart for the answers. > > What Bob proposes is a bit cumbersome since it involves remembering > the full URL path. > > Stuart's suggestion really addresses the problem I'm experiencing. I > admit there's only a bunch of cases where I haven't had my laptop > within me, or no nearby computer with a monitor and a working network > connection. Thanks for looking into this. > > -- > Thanks a munch, > Ville > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 12:28:17PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > Personally I remember a few nearby mirror URLs, but I do think this could > > be improved - we could add a sample pkg.conf file to /etc/examples with > > a list of mirrors updated from mirrors.dat. Unless there are objections to > > that idea, I'll look at modifying the scripts for this. > > On 19 July 2014 01:36, Bob Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > > ftp -o - http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/ftplist | some > > script, or maybe your eyes and pick one. > > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Ville Valkonen <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> On 17 July 2014 00:10, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 2014/07/16 16:00, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: > >>>> Oh come on... It's not like the URLs are some giant uuid-based madness > >>>> or something. All the mirrors have the same simple layout. If you install > >>>> lots of boxes regularly, it doesn't take long to memorize the name of > >>>> your closest mirror. If you don't install lots of stuff, then just set > >>>> installpath in your pkg.conf and forget about it. > >>> > >>> If you choose your mirror from the list in the installer, this is already > >>> set automatically in pkg.conf. > >> > >> Hello Stuart, > >> > >> what would you suggest for situations where installXX.iso is burned to > >> a CD to avoid downloading sets from the net due a slow Internet > >> connection? When sets are installed from the CD it doesn't set > >> PKG_PATH. I couldn't find any mirror list from the ISO image by > >> grepping. > >> > >> Previously I've used lynx to navigate on the project's website and > >> copy&paste mirror URL with tmux. > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> Ville > >> >
