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Date:      Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:33:07 +1000
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu>, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Fetching distfiles off-site
Message-ID:  <00041912364401.00395@freebsd.freebsd.org>
References:  <20000416185651.A95032@localhost.localdomain>

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Firstly,

Are those non BSD machines with the T1 connection running some kind of proxy
program. ?

If you are:-

Then you have to setup the following in your root /root/.login and add

# Bypassing the proxy
setenv FTP_PROXY IP_ADDRESS_OF)PROXY
setenv HTTP_PROXY IP_ADDRESS_OF_PROXY 

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, David J. Kanter wrote:
> My FreeBSD box has only a 56K modem, but I have access to non-BSD machines
> that have T1 lines. I'd like to use those machines to download the larger
> distfiles, and transfer them onto my BSD machine with a Zip disk.
> 
> How can I interpret the Makefile of a port to ensure that I get all the
> appropriate distfiles? Just look at the DISTFILES, BUILD_DEPENDS, and
> RUN_DEPENDS?
> -- 
> David Kanter
> djkanter@nwu.edu
> 
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