From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 22:29:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87DEB16A407 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:29:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6092113C448 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:29:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out1.internal (unknown [10.202.2.149]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9652C20AD90; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:29:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by out1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:29:03 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: QuMuUT9zQqekXBDe56mZAOX0VX/2RX+KjvYrx2OyceD1 1174516146 Received: from [10.1.10.136] (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA0BA9C7; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:29:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20070319143905.7c69cc41@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <0EE4A357-FB1C-410D-BDF2-AF3A8BC7736B@goldmark.org> <20070319143905.7c69cc41@gumby.homeunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <823E470A-93A8-4B6B-899A-E337FB75CABD@goldmark.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jeffrey Goldberg Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:29:03 -0500 To: RW X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:29:08 -0000 I asked how to pass the -p argument to fetch when doing a port upgrade. Answers here, and further digging confirm that the presuppositions behind my question were wrong. First of all, the problem that I was having had nothing to do with active vs passive FTP. I had butchered all FTP traffic with my firewall rules. As an aside, I'd like to rant that there is no reason for ftp to exist anymore. Sure it is stateful in a way that HTTP isn't, but that isn't enough to justify its continued use. Of course having recently displayed my ignorance of how these things work, I'm in no position to make such proclamations. By default (at least in 6.2-RELEASE) fetch is called with the -p option, thus making my request to the list even less coherent. This is defined by FETCH_ARGS?= -ApRr in bsd.port.mk As far as I can tell this and many other configuration options are not documented anywhere outside of the .mk files themselves. Is that really how things should be? Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone for their help and patience. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/