Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:54:33 -0400 From: vaidab@Safe-mail.net To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/82309: option to download ports via http only Message-ID: <N1-kGvf_5Rq@Safe-mail.net>
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Yes, it would be perfect. -------- Original Message -------- From: Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg> To: vaidab@Safe-mail.net Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/82309: option to download ports via http only Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:33:42 +0300 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:51:59AM -0400, vaidab@Safe-mail.net wrote: > > >Description: > > I am in a campus where ftp is filtered and I would like an option to choose the protocol by which ports are fetched. > > e.g. define PORTS_USE_HTTP_ONLY="yes" in make.conf > > To avoid binding only to http and ftp protocols I suggest that it would > be better to have PORTS_FETCH_PROTOCOLS= or just FETCH_PROTOCOLS= that > contains a list of allowed protocols. It will just skip sites that do > not start with one of the strings specified in this variable. For > example: > PORTS_FETCH_PROTOCOLS=http:// > will skip ftp://ftp.foo.org/x/y/z from a list of sites like: > http://a/b/c ftp://ftp.foo.org/x/y/z http://bar/baz > > Or even we can have similar _REJECT variable in addition that removes > only sites that start with specified strings. > > Does this sound reasonable? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iD8DBQFCsnzWFw6SP/bBpCARAqw0AJ4lpbfAXNKm7JCa2Nf4Z7K3nhRDWwCfWgzD > dspeGJYum0UEqzYwOE15xfc= > =PiT/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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