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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:54:31 +0000
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp
Message-ID:  <20070319125431.079cf3bf@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <45FE1127.1050001@hier7.com>
References:  <0EE4A357-FB1C-410D-BDF2-AF3A8BC7736B@goldmark.org> <45FE1127.1050001@hier7.com>

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:27:19 -0400
Chris Slothouber <chris@hier7.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeffrey,
> 
> Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> > On my perimeter firewall, I default deny outbound traffic.  This
> > cuts off fetching using active FTP.  Is there some way that I can
> > tell portupgrade to pass the -p flag to fetch?
> > 
> > I know that I can temporarily change my firewall rules, but I think
> > that it would be a cleaner solution to just tell portupgrade to not
> > use active mode FTP.  (Or maybe fetch itself when it fails with
> > active mode ftp should try again with passive).
> 
> in /etc/make.conf:
> 
> FETCH_CMD?=          /usr/bin/fetch -ApRr
> 

This is actually the default, and has been for some time.



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