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

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41278; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach%centrum.cz@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/41278: NetBSD mirror system is virtually useless for packages
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:21:25 +0200

 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