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Date:      Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:03:18 +0100
From:      Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com>
To:        Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?
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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

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http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-January/226342.h=
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- Mark




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