Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:06:18 +0100 (CET) From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Marcus Henschel <marcus@hamburg.de> Subject: Re: HTTP_PROXY in /etc/make.conf doesn't make it into the environment Message-ID: <200202010806.g1186I371553@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <20020201085934.C62292@sr.se>
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Hi all! Gunnar Flygt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 07:34:12PM +0000, Marcus Henschel wrote: > > On Thursday 31 January 2002 13:19, you wrote: > > > > > > 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? > > > > 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! > > To be absolutely shure that it works properly, I learnt that you should > have: > export http_proxy=http://192.76.124.111:8080 > > and the same goes for ftp proxy except for switch http:// to ftp:// I know all this - of course it works if you put these entries into your environment. "export ..." being the wrong method if you use (t)csh as root, BTW. I already wrote that setenv'ing the values works as expected. If you had read my mail, ... The point is: the example entries in /etc/defaults/make.conf are completely nonsensical - at least to me. Please read before you type. Thanks, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Scheffelstr. 17 a Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76135 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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