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*I have a mirror testing program for you.* in the tech mailing list. It copied there. -Luke On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Luke Small <thinkitdoitd...@gmail.com> wrote: > here you go! Enjoy! > > -Luke > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:57 AM, Erling Westenvik < > erling.westen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 01:26:15AM -0600, Luke Small wrote: >> > I made a small 500 line program I call pkg_ping that calls uname -rm, >> > ftp, sed, on openbsd.org/ftp.html. >> >> A "program"? In what language? Is your code available somewhere? >> >> > then it changes all the parsed http and ftp mirrors into http and ftp >> > downloads and changes them to non redundant http mirrors (it has to to >> > easily call ftp on it). It takes them and downloads SHA256 from the >> > mirrors and the parent times how long it takes. If it takes too long >> > it kills the ftp call and goes on to the next one. Then it sorts the >> > results and puts the winner in /etc/pkg.conf >> >> So the program basically makes several network connections to >> potentially some 120 servers all across the world and the "winner" is >> calculated based on the "speed" it took downloading a 1.9K text file >> from each of them? >> Not taking into account the number of hops, nor the anti-social >> behaviour of starting to download large install sets of files from the >> other side of the planet when a more nearby but a little slower mirror >> is available? >> >> > replacing all installpath instances, while leaving everything else. It >> > doesn't do any network stuff directly so it probably wouldn't be much >> > of a security problem, but because it needs to alter a root owned >> > file, it should need root privileges. >> >> It doesn't need to mess with /etc/pkg.conf. Setting PKG_PATH will >> override installpath. See pkg.conf(5). >> >> > I don't only run the release, so I don't even really know how to >> > pledge it. Is this something somebody would be willing to submit to >> > the project and maybe alter it slightly. >> >> I'm no dev and can't speak on the behalf of the project. Back when I was >> a complete novice I might have used a tool like this on some occasions - >> not knowing better... >> As part of the base system or the installer? Hardly... >> As a package? Maybe, but you would probably have to make it all yourself. >> >> Regards >> >> Erling
