On 2015-11-16, Marc Peters <m...@mpeters.org> wrote: > Am 11/16/15 um 12:00 schrieb Stefan Wollny: >> Hi there, >> >> I may be wrong but I thought usage of ftp to get information and to >> download packages is discouraged. I just noticed (after having done a >> fresh install of amd64-current) reading the welcome mail "Welcome to >> OpenBSD 5.8!" that the ftp-protocol is still given. >> >> Instead >> ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/packages >> shouldn't this rather be >> http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/packages > > ftp is still a valid option for packages. The installation via ftp is > not supported anymore.
It is still valid for some mirrors. But we shouldn't be directing people there, pkg_add (and in particular pkg_add -u) works a lot better with http. Especially if the ftp is going through ftp-proxy.
