Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:34:12 +0000 From: Marcus Henschel <marcus@hamburg.de> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HTTP_PROXY in /etc/make.conf doesn't make it into the environment Message-ID: <20020131183400.7103D37B404@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200201311319.g0VDJ4P35972@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <200201311319.g0VDJ4P35972@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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On Thursday 31 January 2002 13:19, you wrote: > Hi all! > > In /etc/defaults/make.conf there are sample entries > suggesting that you could set HTTP_PROXY or FTP_PROXY > in /etc/make.conf and have fetch et. al. honour it - > like when installing ports. > > Unfortunately this has no effect at all on the operation of > "make install" in some port's directory. You have to setenv > these values for fetch to work. > > If this is on purpose, why are these sample entries in > /etc/defaults/make.conf? > > Thanks, > > Patrick M. Hausen > Technical Director Hi Patrick, you should put: export http_proxy=192.76.124.111:8080 (adress:port of your proxy server) in your /etc/profile or in your .bashrc file if you are using bash! regards Marcus Henschel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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