hey, On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:17:09AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010/05/17 01:07, Edd Barrett wrote: > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:14:07PM +0200, Nicolas P. M. Legrand wrote: > > > hello, > > > > > > $ cat snapdl/pkg/DESCR > > > > > > snapdl helps you to find mirrors with snapshots of -current synced with > > > the main mirror http://ftp.OpenBSD.org and to download the sets from the > > > fastest one. > > > > > > it's a small script I was missing while downloading regularly > > > snapshots, I find it very useful I wonder if anyone else is > > > interested? > > > > I like it! I have a similar script, but I like yours better.
thanks :) > > Lets get the port up to scratch for importing. The diff below shows some > > stuff > > you missed. Can anyone see anything else? If not, can I get an OK? > > > > PS. For the next version, ftp support too? > > > > PS(2): At the moment you are scraping the html. Perhaps if you were to > > ask the relevent parties, you might be able to have the mirror list in a > > better format? > > mirrors.dat ho right. > It seriously needs some caching. Checking nearly 60 mirrors > and, if ftp is added, another 80 on top, most of which are in > totally the wrong part of the world for you, every time you > update, is both slow and not very nice to the mirrors. OK, after work i'll put a "choose country" and a "ftp or http" question, use and cache the mirrors.dat. thank you both for looking at it.
