From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 27 22:20:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00635 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:20:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwcn.org (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00588 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:20:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by hwcn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA21026; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 01:16:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 01:16:15 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Daniel O'Connor" cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Warner Losh , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 In-Reply-To: <199801280228.MAA08304@cain.gsoft.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I am fairly sure that it will just recursivley install the dependancies, but I > haven't tried it recently. It works because you have the whole ports tree expanded into PORTSDIR on your computer. It's the people who download a single port that have to check the dependencies themselves, otherwise the build will continue along merrily until it fails due to a missing dependency. > > [...] > > > Well, *I* do :) > > Well, I guess that answers my question. :) > Heh :) > I suppose I could just change fetch so it uses http_proxy and ftp_proxy as > well :) You mean HTTP_PROXY=my.very.own.proxy fetch http://my.distant.site/your/file and the related FTP_PROXY? Changing the environment isn't considered the same as changing fetch(1)! ;-) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk