From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 12 17:03:57 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F7F51065676 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:03:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@exonetric.com) Received: from relay0.exonetric.net (relay0.exonetric.net [178.250.72.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053E68FC24 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:03:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.111.147] (unknown [62.244.179.66]) by relay0.exonetric.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59FE857003; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:04:39 +0100 (BST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Mark Blackman In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:03:18 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: Kaya Saman X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:03:57 -0000 On 12 Jul 2012, at 17:23, Kaya Saman wrote: > How does one get round this issue as my superiors are telling me that > opening up FTP is a security risk and therefor don't want to proceed? >=20 >=20 > I would like to use ports specifically and not the pkg_add tool to get = software. >=20 >=20 > Can anyone sugget anything? The usual solution appears to be to add MASTER_SORT_REGEX =3D ^http to your /etc/make.conf file see = http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-January/226342.h= tml - Mark