Monday, May 29, 2017

Re: OpenBSD Package Manager

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:16:26PM -0400, H. Ishikawa wrote:
> 3. Why so many connections?
> When I tried to investigate why the update was so slow, I saw that
> pkg_add was making one HTTPS connection per package! Tools like
> wget from Linux can reuse a single connection for many downloads.
> Could this be added to pkg_add in OpenBSD?

Don't use https with pkg_add! apart from anonymity, this gains you
nothing as all packages are signed anyway

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