I didn't know about the miniroot program that edited installpath until I had a network-assisted upgrade. Every time before, I just did it from disk. I edited PKG_PATH to do that, from what I recall, I used a text editor and to do that, I had to memorize the installpath to manually copy it in the text editor. I am still unaware of a way to copy and paste to an editor that is capable of running with root privileges.
I just took the claim that the main mirror was burdened at face value. I wouldn't doubt that the simplest to remember is heavily burdened and the longest is probably burdened the least. -Luke On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Stuart Henderson <st...@openbsd.org> wrote: > On 2016/02/03 20:48, Luke Small wrote: > > I suspect that unless there is a solution that doesn't involve lazy new > > users to memorize more complicated named mirrors, you are going to run > into > > this problem over and over again. > > Why would they need to memorize them? In most cases the one they picked > when they installed OpenBSD will be just fine, if not they can change > pkg.conf to point at a new one from the mirrors list. > > > >> Raf Czlonka wrote: > > >> - ftp.openbsd.org is, AFAIC, overloaded > > Whenever I've checked speeds from ftp.openbsd.org they have been fairly > consistent, this isn't the usual expected behaviour of an overloaded > machine. (not super fast, but they have been consistent). > >
