To follow up on the mirror idea... Here's a quick draft for a CGI that would accept HTTP (haven't tried FTP URLs yet) requests for pkgsrc packages and direct them to a random mirror, pasted below. In testing, pkg_add works with it, either as a directly passed URL or if you set PKG_PATH. BINPKG_SITES does not work for 'bmake bin-install' targets, because it unhelpfully assumes it needs to add /All onto the target URL.
#!/usr/pkg/bin/perl @mirrors = ( "http://www.pkgsrc-box.org/packages/stable/DragonFly-1.10/All";, "http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/packages/stable/DragonFly-1.10/All";, "http://www.theshell.com/pub/DragonFly/packages/stable/DragonFly-1.10/All";, "http://ftp.twaren.net/BSD/DragonFlyBSD/packages/stable/DragonFly-1.10/All";, ); my $target = $ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}; $target =~ s/^\/download//; print "Location: " . $mirrors[int(rand(scalar(@mirrors)))] . "$target\n\n";
