Re: pkg/41278: NetBSD mirror system is virtually useless for packages

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach%centrum.cz@localhost>]

On 25/04/2009, Michal Suchanek <hramrach%centrum.cz@localhost> wrote:
> On 25/04/2009, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>  > The following reply was made to PR pkg/41278; it has been noted by GNATS.
>  >
>  >  From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
>  >  To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
>  >  Cc:
>  >  Subject: Re: pkg/41278: NetBSD mirror system is virtually useless for
>  >         packages
>  >  Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:30:42 +0200
>  >
>  >   On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 08:30:00AM +0000, hramrach%centrum.cz@localhost 
> wrote:
>  >   >  - most ftp daemons do not support "dir bash*.t[bg]z" which pkg_add
>  >   > uses to locate bash package. Note the [] in the glob. Accessing the
>  >   > mirror through http somewhat works but it is slow. Also the mirrors
>  >   > are listed as ftp in the mirror list, NetBSD has no documented http
>  >   > mirrors.
>  >
>  >   Update your pkg_install. pkg_install hasn't used glob patterns since
>  >   20070416. HTTP processing is slower due to the need to fetch the full
>  >   index. Somewhat smarter processing will be added at some point, to cache
>  >   it more aggressively, but many server don't honour if-modified-since etc
>  >   for directory listenings.
>
>
> pkg_install shipped with NetBSD 4.0.1 does that, and so does
>  pkg_install-20090326 shipped with pkgsrc 2009Q1.
>

It's somewhat different:

I got  pkg_install-20090326 as a dependency the first time I installed
something form pkgsrc but the binaries are only installed in
/usr/pkg/sbin, not /usr/sbin so running pkg_add still invokes the
ancient pkg_install.

Running the new pkg_add with -v no longer shows any ftp fetch so I am
not sure what it is doing.

Thanks

Michal