Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:36:42 +0100 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com> Cc: cpervica@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> Subject: Re: simple patch for portsnap to use wget Message-ID: <20121127093642.GD96846@e-new.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <CAPJF9wnoTCjNM76M-=DdC85P75niKH%2Bta0Vk8X7HORGvT=LLcQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKoxK%2B5iy2R7=cZp38xKZpTbgFd0aZ3H28tVmPnuPR01w=pO4A@mail.gmail.com> <CAPJF9wnoTCjNM76M-=DdC85P75niKH%2Bta0Vk8X7HORGvT=LLcQ@mail.gmail.com>
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--4X8KWh4JEk7YXJIe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:22:09AM +0200, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: > Do you aware that if wget tries download from https, and there is > self-signed certificate, then it fails, and ask for --no-check-certificate > option? > How do your patch deal in that case? >=20 > 2012/11/27 Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> >=20 > > Hi all, > > I was in trouble for a while because I was using FreeBSD behind an > > http proxy (a palo alto for what it means) and the portsnap command > > was unable to handle updates reporting always "file does not exist". > > After digging I found that the problem was in the phttpget command > > used internally from portsnap: phttpget is not able to handle an > > http_proxy variable in the form of http://user:password@proxy:port > > since the first colon is understood as a port separator and therefore > > phttpget tries to connect to the host "user" on port > > "password@proxy:port". Since I did not found much documentation about > > how to solve the problem, and nobody on the forum was able to point me > > in any direction (see > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D28849) I wrote a simple > > patch to modify portsnap to use wget instead of phttpget. > > Of course, this means you have to install wget first, and also the > > laminating of the files to download has slightly changed within > > portsnap, but I'm using it from several days and updates now and it > > seems to work well. > > Now the question is: should this patch, or better the idea of using > > wget or another alike substitute to phttpget, be integrated into the > > system? > > I've tested it on FreeBSD-9-STABLE. > > This should really be fixed in portsnap / phttpget itself. (cpervica CC'ed). wget is not part of the base system. --4X8KWh4JEk7YXJIe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlC0iaoACgkQKc512sD3afh27wCfcR5V06n5k/O9iti3L8HGXQV1 BHkAoII9fhuSYgzrq2li3e6g0HqruLbQ =dICs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4X8KWh4JEk7YXJIe--
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