From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 20 17:44:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DBE637BBEB; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:44:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA06234; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:43:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38B0981D.DC2FCCEC@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:42:53 -0800 From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Cc: nik@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Teach make.conf about FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS References: <20000220091540.A2628@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton wrote: > > [ Sent to -current and -ports, followups set to -current ] > > Here's another trivial patch that people might like to comment on before I > commit it. I'm doing more and more FreeBSD installs recently at various > client sites, and adding "FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-p" to make.conf is just one of > those standard things you have to do if there's a firewall in place. > > Any one got any objection to mentioning that fact, with the included patch? I agree that this doesn't belong in make.conf. What does this modification do that FTP_PASSIVE_MODE in login.conf doesn't? Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message