pkg mirrors extremely slow, why not use the ftp mirrors?

[Ottavio Caruso]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 18:41, Martin Hanson <greencoppermine at yandex.com> wrote:

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> Why are not all the old http:.//ftp.*.freebsd.org mirrors used for pkg?

This ^.

As an absolute beginner who is oblivious to the hysterical raisins why
this and that have happened in the past, I wonder why packages are not
stored as a subdirectory of ftp.freebsd.org/pub/, which would make it
easy for all official and unofficial mirrors to keep a copy of them.


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Ottavio Caruso