hmm, on Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:07:15PM +0100, Stuart Henderson said that > the ftp problems are only when going through ftp-proxy(8) which > mangles the SYNCH sequence needed to interrupt transfers. if you can > avoid ftp-proxy then ftp should a similar speed to http.
no proxy involved tis case > frantisek, some -vvv on the pkg_add line might help throw light > on it, also send it a siginfo (often done with ^T depending on your > shell setup) and see if that either unfreezes it, or gives you more > information. or ktrace perhaps. it's not easy reproducing these :] everything is now updated... actually i did ^T multiple times. i dont have a "screenshot" but state was running, and the line under it said just something generic like "updating package-oldversion->package-newversion, or something very similar... -f -- reality is just another illusion.