From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 9:48:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAE8D37B6D2 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 20872 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2000 18:48:05 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-4-193.bb.tninet.se (HELO marbsd.tninet.se) (62.5.4.193) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 24 Jul 2000 18:48:05 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands Reply-To: mark.rowlands@minmail.net To: Matthew Bayliss-N3D Subject: Re: CVSup and Ports Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:38:36 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <01B7949A559DD111A1F40000F8CB2D88014549D0@midbirmxu01.bm.bbc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <01B7949A559DD111A1F40000F8CB2D88014549D0@midbirmxu01.bm.bbc.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00072418443100.04000@marbsd.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Matthew Bayliss-N3D wrote: > Is there any alternative way to update my sources than the CVSup method? > Like perhaps a tarball of updated sources or port skeletons. > The problem is that unless I have access through a firewall I can't update, > surely I can't be the only one who has experienced this so there must be an > alternative. > > Cheers, > > Matt modula-3-socks may be of assistance if you have a socks proxy and can make it play . I played around with for a while without much success but our firewall guy is not very co-operative - we have a very strict firewall policy :-( -- Mark Rowlands +4686224510 GMT + 1 _______________________________________________ These opinions are mine, they are just opinions you are free to disagree, please do so quietly _______________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message