fastest-pkg shell script

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From: Dan Mahoney (Ports) <freebsd_at_gushi.org>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 22:29:41 UTC

Hey folks,

Dayjob occasionally deploys boxes (local anycast root DNS servers) into places with weird and limited connectivity, where routing and geolocation isn't always a reliable metric.

There's "fastest-pkg" in ports, but it's in python which means...you have to be able to fetch packages to use it.

I made a shell variant.  It would be cool if it could be baseified!

https://github.com/thegushi/fastest-pkg.sh

-Dan