From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 10:29:42 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 0568537B401 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 10:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1a-215.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.170.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A7CC43F85 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 10:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h4LHTd0n017938; Wed, 21 May 2003 13:29:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3ECBB783.3030409@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 13:29:39 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Krzysiak References: <200305211849.36430.cinek@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200305211849.36430.cinek@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 17:29:42 -0000 Martin Krzysiak wrote: > 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? cvsup doesn't use HTTP, so there's really no way I know of to make it use an HTTP proxy without a lot of magic or messy hacking. > 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. Replace it with something NOT broken or download the ISO image somewhere that doesn't have a broken proxy and install from it or buy the ISO from FreeBSDMall. > 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. I had to be cynical, but: You're asking the FreeBSD team to rename a bunch of files to get around one (admittedly) broken proxy? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com