Re: pkg_add and remote packages

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> What do others think about this?

I think we went over this before. The current code reuses the one 
connection to fetch one file after the other, and I wrote things that way 
to save the FTP server from opening many connections.

For the other two options that you mention, the ups and downs should be 
considered. I.e. if the dependency tree is not too deep, I'd accept using 
multiple connections.

On the other hand, I wouldn't mind caching .tgz files locally, as I've 
seen several situations where things were fetched multiple times, and 
caching would have saved me bandwitch (that I don't have ;).

Or maybe implement both schemes, and let the user decide?


 - Hubert