Thursday, May 30, 2019

Re: mirroring firmware.openbsd.org

Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:

> Our firewalls can't connecto to firmware.openbsd.org (by design).

Always a choice to make.

> Is there a way to mirror the contents of firmware.openbsd.org?

They are just web servers, so a wget will collect everything.

> It would be nice if these files were available in the usual OpenBSD
> mirrors, since we already mirror those and could just point fw_update
> at our internal mirror host.

firmware.openbsd.org is independent and segregated from official OpenBSD
upstream and mirroring since we don't own the data in the files and
logistics of getting that resolved for all files (and maintained for the
future) is implausible.

> But something like an rsync- or ftp-able
> firmware.openbsd.org source would be just fine.

They answer to http just fine.

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