On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Long Wind <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank STeve Andre'  I use script method
>
> I probably will disappoint Ingo Schwarze, perhaps it's not really
> error, but it made me feel uneasy:
>
> Error from
> http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/OpenBSD/5.5/packages/i386/quirks-1.113.tgz
> Redirected to
> http://211.167.105.78:82/1Q2W3E4R5T6Y7U8I9O0P1Z2X3C4V5B/ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/OpenBSD/5.5/packages/i386/quirks-1.113.tgz


That's presumably just the nature of how that site handles the mirror, via
a redirect among their servers.  With signed packages, you can be confident
that an interposer can't use that subvert your pkg_add by replacing the
package files.



> BTW what's quirks anyway? I often see it
>

It's a package used by the package system itself.  c.f pkg_info quirks


Philip Guenther

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