From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 09:49:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A81F837B401 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 09:49:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 747BF43F93 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 09:49:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cinek@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 24870 invoked by uid 65534); 21 May 2003 16:49:37 -0000 Received: from pD951FA24.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO pD951FA24.dip.t-dialin.net) (217.81.250.36) by mail.gmx.net (mp005-rz3) with SMTP; 21 May 2003 18:49:37 +0200 From: Martin Krzysiak To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 18:49:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305211849.36430.cinek@gmx.de> Subject: Upgrading stable behind a proxy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 16:49:43 -0000 My PC at work is behind an HTTP-proxy which I don't have access to. I want to upgrade my FreeBSD from 4.7 to stable. Problem number 1 - cvsup: How do I specify a HTTP-proxy (which does not accept a CONNECT command) for cvsup? Problem number 2 - custom install (not a FreeBSD problem): I found out the proxy is broken and I cannot download files with certain extensions (.ai for example; NO! It's not a filter! The proxy is _really_ broken! It's running on Windows, so I don't know about it.). So I cannot simply download files like '.aa' to '.zz' from the http/ftp-mirrors. Additional remark: I am really glad that fetch works (.tgz & .tbz), so I can build ports at least, but cvsup'ing the ports-tree is impossible, too (I am always downloading it in one ports.tar.gz file). Small request: is it possible to use other extensions for the splitted files on the servers? I know it's a difficult thing. I suppose, you want to keep the 8.3 MS-DOS style. Problem number 3 - downloading snapshots: I downloaded one from an official mirror. I mounted the image and started "./install.sh all" (I think) inside the sources-directory. I thought it would install "the world", after a "make buildworld" it said something about missing openssl sources. (I checked the MD5, it was ok.) I guess rsync over the broken proxy (without CONNECT) will not work either. I think I will burn my "world" from here on CD. Any other ideas? Martin