From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 4 17:23: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7E6150F4 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:23:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18915; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:52:33 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199903041530.HAA09064@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 11:52:33 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Stanislav Shalunov Subject: Re: ports/10377: `make' in ports does not honor {f,ht}tp_proxy s Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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