Re: pkg_add mirror latency testing, setting program

2016-08-23 Thread lists
Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:32:48 + Luke Small > You can only tell the fastest latency for a download by testing it at your > location. It is very fast. > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:25 AM wrote: > > > Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:09:38 + Luke Small > > [...] > > > It downloads the ANNOUNCEMENT file

Re: pkg_add mirror latency testing, setting program

2016-08-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2016/08/23 09:09, Luke Small wrote: > It downloads the ANNOUNCEMENT file from each mirror, which is both small > and has the same name for every release. > > I suspect it still wouldn't be accepted in any form for the base, but is > there any reason I couldn't make a package, even though I have

Re: pkg_add mirror latency testing, setting program

2016-08-23 Thread Luke Small
You can only tell the fastest latency for a download by testing it at your location. It is very fast. On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:25 AM wrote: > Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:09:38 + Luke Small > [...] > > It downloads the ANNOUNCEMENT file from each mirror, which is both small > > and has the same nam

Re: pkg_add mirror latency testing, setting program

2016-08-23 Thread lists
Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:09:38 + Luke Small [...] > It downloads the ANNOUNCEMENT file from each mirror, which is both small > and has the same name for every release. [...] Hi Luke, Two comments, first everyone knows their geographic location, time zone and respectively closest mirror, and then

pkg_add mirror latency testing, setting program

2016-08-23 Thread Luke Small
I had one before that read openbsd.org/ftp.html (which is insecure because it gets sets a mirror from data from an unencrypted connection), but I changed it to read the /etc/examples/pkg.conf file so that there is a more secure method. I pledged it. I tried to do pledge and setuid, but a glitch tha