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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:40:20 +0600 (NOVT)
From:      "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru>
To:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Cc:        Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>, 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:  <20020201143731.W31812-100000@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200202010806.g1186I371553@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:

>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.
>
It doesn't worked for me when it was 4.4-STABLE-20011214... I don't
checked whether it works on -CURRENT or not.

   Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek
       mailto:stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru
       mailto:stranger@fpm.ami.nstu.ru



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