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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: ports/10377: `make' in ports does not honor {f,ht}tp_proxy settings 
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The following reply was made to PR ports/10377; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: shalunov@lynxhub.lz.att.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/10377: `make' in ports does not honor {f,ht}tp_proxy settings 
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:07:06 PST

 In message <199903032003.PAA13426@tuzik.lz.att.com> you write:
 >	I have set ftp_proxy and http_proxy in the environment (using
 >	IP numbers).
 
 Sigh.  fetch had FTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY first; then the NetBSD ftp
 got imported which uses ftp_proxy and http_proxy, and now we have two
 different ways to do the same thing.
 
 >	What was the reason to use `fetch' rather than `ftp' as
 >	FETCH_CMD in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk?
 
 "ftp" did not support http: URL's (since it's ... uh ... "ftp").
 
   Bill
 


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