Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 07:20:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Stanislav Shalunov <shalunov@lynxhub.lz.att.com>
To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/10377: `make' in ports does not honor {f,ht}tp_proxy settings
Message-ID: <199903051520.HAA51613@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/10377; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Stanislav Shalunov <shalunov@lynxhub.lz.att.com>
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/10377: `make' in ports does not honor {f,ht}tp_proxy settings
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:09:33 -0500 (EST)
Bill Fenner has written:
> > What was the reason to use `fetch' rather than `ftp' as
> > FETCH_CMD in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk?
>
> "ftp" did not support http: URL's (since it's ... uh ... "ftp").
Uh? The NetBSD ftp(1) (now in FreeBSD) supports http:// stuff for me
just fine. Am I special or something?
And it uses same environment for proxies as all the other programs.
fetch(1) had to invent its own names and formats, for some reason.
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