Post #4201030

2026-07-21 13:57 UTC

@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org @jperkin@federate.me.uk Over the last week, I noticed cdn.netbsd.org seemed to be intermittently available. Switching to a different mirror helped, but then I noticed that pkg_summary.gz was out of date on ftp.netbsd.org resulting in pkgin issues. ftp.fr.netbsd.org got me running with no problems. Looks like other mirrors are working as expected again.

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@jperkin@federate.me.uk 2026-07-21 14:02

@brubarwal@mastodon.sdf.org @ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org Yeh it's a common issue, especially when you add CDNs into the mix. The only way for pkgin to work reliably is if entire package directories are only ever updated atomically. I do this for https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/ so you'll never see similar errors there, but I don't know that everyone else is so careful. If you just run naive rsync then files and pkg_summary will be out of sync until the entire directory has finished uploading. #netbsd #pkgsrc

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@joel@gts.tumfatig.net 2026-07-21 15:36

@brubarwal@mastodon.sdf.org @ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org @jperkin@federate.me.uk I also had issues with CDN during my last netbook playtime. I switched to using the FR mirror and all suddenly went well.

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