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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: ports/5530: fetch (in make fetch stage) do not use passive ftp mode even I set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/make.conf 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jan 1998 03:10:03 PST."
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 05:08:43 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>  We never supported this variable in bsd.port.mk.  I can put it in if
>  people want.

It's already there! :-)

>  What would the semantics be?  Should I just add it to fetch's
>  environment if this variable is defined, or should I add "-p" to
>  FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS?

Ideally you should just make sure it's in the environment since
fetch(1) obeys its presence automatically.  It doesn't need any
additional flags.

					Jordan