Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 11:52:33 +1030 (CST)
From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To: Stanislav Shalunov <shalunov@lynxhub.lz.att.com>
Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports/10377: `make' in ports does not honor {f,ht}tp_proxy s
Message-ID: <XFMail.990305115233.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199903041530.HAA09064@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 04-Mar-99 Stanislav Shalunov wrote: > I am not sure you have paid attention to the fact that ftp and fetch > use different FTP proxy protocols: ftp(1) just retrieves file via HTTP > in the usual manner; fetch(1) expects proxy to talk the FTP protocol > and to forward requests further. > > Everyone has the first kind of proxy around; nobody has this arcane > second kind. Try make FETCH_CMD=ftp :) or put FETCH_CMD=ftp in /etc/make.conf ftp understands doing http requests as well, so you may as well use it as a replacement. BTW more things understand the http_proxy/ftp_proxy vars, ie Lynx, Netscape and wget, so ftp gets my vote for fetching ports... --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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