Re: Set PKG_PATH using Time Zone?

[Dale Lindskog]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, L.R. D.S. wrote:

> Is really boring write the package repository everytime we install. 
> Why not set the repository using the Time Zone as a reference?
> For example, if you set Japan as your zone, then run
> export PKG_PATH=http://www.ftp.ne.jp/OpenBSD/'uname -r'/packages/'uname -m'/

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

chomp( my( $uname_r, $uname_m ) = ( `uname -r`, `uname -m` ) );
chomp( my $zone = join( '/', ( split('/', `ls -l /etc/localtime`) )[-2,-1] ) );

my %mirror = (
  "Canada/Mountain" => "ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD";,
  # okay, I'm bored now... hopefully "L.R. D.S." will help
);

print "$mirror{$zone}/$uname_r/packages/$uname_m/";