On 2008/10/4, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pkg_info will only download the beginning of the package, since it only > needs the packing information, and we're very careful to store it at > the beginning. > > Now, a lot of FTP servers tend to not like abort in the middle of transfer, > especially when coupled with idiot firewalls. http transfers should be > slightly better.
I'm not sure but the partial transfer appears to work with single (versioned) files. I think I'm using (I'm not at the machine atm) PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/. Also I think it would be nice if the packages are dumped not into the present directory but in the $PKG_CACHE that I have set. This makes it convenient to export PKG_PATH=$PKG_CACHE:etc > Strangely enough, pkg transfers over scp is the fastest, due to using > a specialized protocol that avoids this set-up/tear-down altogether. > > So what you see is very much set-up/tear-down of connections, pkg_info > actually uses very little bandwidth, but it has a high latency. I'm not familiar with scp (never used it). Where's the list of scp mirrors?
