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Date:      Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:14:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
To:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf
Message-ID:  <199902040714.XAA26202@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <16187.918097419@zippy.cdrom.com> (jkh@zippy.cdrom.com)

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 * Argh.  The point the whole paragraph makes is that we're not talking
 * about *just* an environment variable and hence pkg_add and sysinstall
 * don't even really enter into this discussion.  It's just a "well known
 * knob" as far as that's concerned, and one which happens to work for
 * both of the above (or any other consumer of libfetch) if set in the
 * environment.

And fetch.

 * Well bugger!  It works for me too now!  Ehmmm.  I guess I should have
 * tried it lately. :-) All I can say to that is that I tried this back
 * in 2.2.7 days and it didn't behave as expected, but in 4.0, at least,
 * it certainly does.  Well nifty, I'm sorry to unfairly impugn the honor
 * of this code then.  I could have sworn I hadn't see any commits to the
 * login class code lately.  Hmmmmm!

Ok.  I believe that means people who are behind firewalls can set
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE in the environment (preferably in /etc/login.conf),
so that any of

  pkg_add
  sysinstall
  "make fetch" inside the ports tree
  calling "fetch" directly

work as expected.

Satoshi

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