On 2016/02/02 22:15, Raf Czlonka wrote: > Like I've mentioned above, I'm not particularly fond of it either. > > I merely copied what was already in the FAQ - I wish you had kept the > rest of the diff, but here is a shortened version anyway :^)
(sorry, trimming a lot here, otherwise it's harder for readers to see the main points) > +# export PKG_PATH=http://your.local.mirror/pub/OpenBSD/%c/packages/%a/ > > I only checked the latter (faq9.html) - it has been introduced over 10 > years ago and it doesn't seem like anyone complained, so naturally I > assumed it is the "sanctioned" way of doing things. 10 years ago nobody would have predicted anybody we would have 900 vanity TLDs. But with the current state of the root zone it's highly likely that .mirror will be delegated sometime soon (I'm surprised it hasn't already gone), I think we should definitely not continue to use it. > I don't think I need to explain why I had removed ftp.openbsd.org in the > first place. I understand why but as an example it has the big advantage of actually working as-is.. I'd also be reasonably happy with: "ftp.<country>.openbsd.org" "ftp.XX.openbsd.org" "(your local mirror)" (because it can't be confused with a valid hostname) ...though what I'd really like is something like "rel.openbsd.org" that users of releases can point at, issuing http redirects pointing at an alive server which is reasonably suitable for the user (and pkg_add would need to cache these rather than hitting it each time). It wouldn't work with snapshots, but by the time someone is running snaps they should be able to take care of themselves a bit more... > Regards, > > Raf > > P.S. PKG_PATH=http://example.org/ would have been my preference. If it was a placeholder for "any random domain" (e.g. in smtpd config examples), I'd totally agree.
