pkg(1) does not deal well with a mirror that is unavailable

[jclulow]

The us-west mirror is apparently down right now, and pkg commands appear to get stuck trying to contact it:

DOWNLOAD                                PKGS         FILES    XFER (MB)   SPEED
ooce/server/nginx                        0/2          0/27      0.0/0.7      --

It appears the system will wait rather a long time for a connection timeout, and may keep trying even after the first few tries fail. Because --disable works at the publisher level, rather than the mirror level, one must remove the mirror configuration altogether to bypass the issue.

The pkg command should probably:

• reduce the connection timeout to something sensible like 10-20 seconds
• remember that it failed at least once during this session and not continue to get stuck using it

[citrus-it]

Interestingly, you can disable individual origins, but not mirrors. That seems like a bug too

theeo# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
omnios                      origin   online F https://pkg.omnios.org/r151050/staging/
omnios                      mirror   online F https://us-west.mirror.omnios.org/r151050/core/
extra.omnios                origin   online F https://pkg.omnios.org/r151050/extra/

theeo# pkg set-publisher --disable -g https://pkg.omnios.org/r151050/staging omnios

theeo# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
omnios                      origin   disabled F https://pkg.omnios.org/r151050/staging/
omnios                      mirror   online F https://us-west.mirror.omnios.org/r151050/core/
extra.omnios                origin   online F https://pkg.omnios.org/r151050/extra/

theeo# pkg set-publisher --disable -m https://us-west.mirror.omnios.org/r151050/core omnios
Mirror 'https://us-west.mirror.omnios.org/r151050/core/' already exists for the specified publisher.