On 2016/08/23 09:09, Luke Small wrote: > It downloads the ANNOUNCEMENT file from each mirror, which is both small > and has the same name for every release. > > I suspect it still wouldn't be accepted in any form for the base, but is > there any reason I couldn't make a package, even though I have no idea how. > It doesn't even require any libraries or dependencies. optimizing it is > ridiculous. It spends a monumental time on its executions of ftp and hardly > any time on anything else. making the -s value small, makes it execute > pretty fast.
I don't think this is really useful for ports either. The time taken to do a DNS lookup and read a file too small to get out of TCP slow start has no bearing on how long it's going to take to e.g. run pkg_add -u (and anything that is going to be a worthwhile test is going to be unacceptable to run across the whole set of mirrors).
