Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:16:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Reitz <reitz@eecs.cwru.edu> To: Michael S <msherman77@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portupgrade question Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.53.0606071714130.18076@brak> In-Reply-To: <d5f57b9c0606070638w73878bdfu8933ba1527bc915d@mail.gmail.com> References: <d5f57b9c0606070638w73878bdfu8933ba1527bc915d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Michael S wrote: > Good day everyone! > > 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. > Any hints? > > P.S. I am running 5.5 if it makes any difference, although I think it > shouldn't. Hi Michael, I don't think that portupgrade actually downloads source code from the internet. Rather, portupgrade is a bit of a wrapper around the normal FreeBSD ports code. According to the handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html The ports system uses fetch(1) in order to download any files. I thought that there was a way to convince the ports to use a different file retreiver, but I don't see anything in the handbook. Have you tried setting the ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment variables, so that fetch can work with your proxy? HTH, -Andy Reitz.
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