On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:06:12 +0100 Gerard Lally wrote: > guide. Indeed I am still not 100% clear about it. It's also difficult > to get mk.conf working so that GNU and Perl and Sourceforge software > is pulled from a local mirror. No matter what I try to get it pulled > from HEAnet in Dublin most of it still seems to come from Vienna! >
Have you tried setting MASTER_SORT in /etc/mk.conf? (see /usr/pkgsrc/mk/defaults/mk.conf) Sites seem to be listed in /usr/pkgsrc/mk/fetch/sites.mk, and most do not have irish mirror listed, maybe you also need to add MASTER_SITE_XXX+= ftp://your.nearest.mirror to /etc/mk.conf (I haven't tried these, but they don't seem unreasonable ideas to try.)
