Thank you Bob and Stuart for the answers. What Bob proposes is a bit cumbersome since it involves remembering the full URL path.
Stuart's suggestion really addresses the problem I'm experiencing. I admit there's only a bunch of cases where I haven't had my laptop within me, or no nearby computer with a monitor and a working network connection. Thanks for looking into this. -- Thanks a munch, Ville On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 12:28:17PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Personally I remember a few nearby mirror URLs, but I do think this could > be improved - we could add a sample pkg.conf file to /etc/examples with > a list of mirrors updated from mirrors.dat. Unless there are objections to > that idea, I'll look at modifying the scripts for this. On 19 July 2014 01:36, Bob Beck <b...@obtuse.com> wrote: > ftp -o - http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/ftplist | some > script, or maybe your eyes and pick one. > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Ville Valkonen <weezeld...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 17 July 2014 00:10, Stuart Henderson <st...@openbsd.org> wrote: >>> On 2014/07/16 16:00, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: >>>> Oh come on... It's not like the URLs are some giant uuid-based madness >>>> or something. All the mirrors have the same simple layout. If you install >>>> lots of boxes regularly, it doesn't take long to memorize the name of >>>> your closest mirror. If you don't install lots of stuff, then just set >>>> installpath in your pkg.conf and forget about it. >>> >>> If you choose your mirror from the list in the installer, this is already >>> set automatically in pkg.conf. >> >> Hello Stuart, >> >> what would you suggest for situations where installXX.iso is burned to >> a CD to avoid downloading sets from the net due a slow Internet >> connection? When sets are installed from the CD it doesn't set >> PKG_PATH. I couldn't find any mirror list from the ISO image by >> grepping. >> >> Previously I've used lynx to navigate on the project's website and >> copy&paste mirror URL with tmux. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Ville >>
