From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 1 0:15:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.karlsruhe.punkt.de (ns.karlsruhe.punkt.de [217.29.32.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD5837B7BE for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (kagate.punkt.de [194.77.232.254]) by ns.karlsruhe.punkt.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA86219; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:08:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: (from ry93@localhost) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g1186I371553; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:06:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ry93) From: "Patrick M. Hausen" Message-Id: <200202010806.g1186I371553@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> Subject: Re: HTTP_PROXY in /etc/make.conf doesn't make it into the environment In-Reply-To: <20020201085934.C62292@sr.se> To: Gunnar Flygt Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:06:18 +0100 (CET) Cc: FreeBSD Stable , Marcus Henschel X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL92 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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