Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:37:25 -0400 From: "Michael S" <msherman77@gmail.com> To: "Toni Schmidbauer" <toni@stderror.at> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portupgrade question Message-ID: <d5f57b9c0606071337pbe4d3a3md7bc0e66c1c9d31e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86slmg4suq.wl%toni@stderror.at> References: <d5f57b9c0606070638w73878bdfu8933ba1527bc915d@mail.gmail.com> <86slmg4suq.wl%toni@stderror.at>
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I had them set, but in lower case - $http_proxy and $ftp_proxy. wget doesn't have a problem with that. More precisely (applogies for not specifying in the first place) the problem was retrieving files from FTP hosts. HTTP sites were fine. On 6/7/06, Toni Schmidbauer <toni@stderror.at> wrote: > At Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:38:36 -0400, > Michael S wrote: > > I have a portupgrade related question. I am behind a proxy and fetch > > doesn't appear to cope with it very well. I installed wget and it > > works great. I updated the pkgtools.conf to reflect that, however > > portupgrade insists on using fetch for some reason. At first I thought > > that portupgrade ignored its configuration file, however once or twice > > I misstyped something and it did catch it. > > did your set HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY in your shell environment? > > see fetch(3). > > hth, > toni > -- > If you understand what you're doing, you're | toni at stderror dot at > not learning anything. | Toni Schmidbauer > -- Anonymous | >
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