Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:30:01 -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: <199903051830.KAA66667@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: fenner@parc.xerox.com, 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 13:22:17 -0500 (EST)
Bill Fenner has written:
> No, you're not special; note the past tense in my reply. In FreeBSD,
> fetch supported proxies and http before ftp did. In 1994, bsd.port.mk
> used ncftp, which was a pain to maintain. It switched to fetch in 1996.
> The NetBSD ftp(1) was ported in 1997.
So, wouldn't it be better to use ftp as FETCH_CMD either always or at
least when ftp_proxy is set? (The latter if fetch is presumed to have
some advantages over ftp.)
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