From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 12 21:01:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37B11065670; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:01:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayasaman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08AA08FC0C; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:01:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eabm6 with SMTP id m6so992833eab.13 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:01:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WilUW2YRdA34D+oPllbgAgxbrLhViKGDdiIRpOiBuCo=; b=wWtAB28+bQO16+Y84+2j4ABH5ATGWbAyKTbpu1pzoSQ6gsduZdJSjzKGKwp+sUhmo3 28MKHhnG20QfRC9wAsPrBcKgludntagOt1pAUuZFayleENCM+9k+1EbiA8FL+m+OLush Kcki3OiOYqksCG69DigABIpimTpIK2JYxkXhz9F/IzWPLiPuHwX8K68ubzbyYwgaoEbC ikluHScCqH5AQXeVxQcuOUW5BEwX1ppO7Pi/fAtDtE3Nmc6SWuGfkv31GIdrll/nATYo NAKTtQG973j8vLJjpvXd2vAYSh2rvSZ9Gpm9RkY4MNxw3ykHChye8W85AHCKnYTQV2Qz igig== Received: by 10.14.29.14 with SMTP id h14mr1712052eea.90.1342126896778; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from X220.optiplex-networks.com (81-178-2-118.dsl.pipex.com. [81.178.2.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y54sm18937291eef.10.2012.07.12.14.01.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FFF3B32.2080803@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:01:38 +0100 From: Kaya Saman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120605 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <44k3y83nib.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20120712174139.GA10822@external.screwed.box> <20120712185400.GB10822@external.screwed.box> <4FFF32EE.2030700@gmail.com> <4FFF37A1.5050906@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4FFF37A1.5050906@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:01:44 -0000 On 07/12/2012 09:46 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 12/07/2012 21:26, Kaya Saman wrote: >> My issues start coming into play when building the actual port itself. >> Ie. fetching the distfile, as you suggested above. >> >> >> As soon as I start running portmaster -a or a 'make install clean' on >> certain ports, the progress just bombs out totally. >> >> >> It would be really cool if I could find a way to centrally manage all of >> this. So perhaps in conjunction with CVSup..... >> >> >> Something like a Linux repo server if you will - though I mention the >> term very loosely. > Have you played with pkgng at all? It's a bit new to use in production > just yet, although reports from testers have been pretty positive so > far, and it's perfectly fine for evaluation purposes. > > It will solve your main problem of not being allowed FTP traffic, as you > can select a package repository accessible through HTTP -- like > the main test repository http://pkgbeta.freebsd.org/freebsd-9-amd64/latest > > See http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng > > Cheers, > > Matthew > Thanks Matthew I will give this a go, although currently I have 2x FreeBSD machines in 'almost' full production as testing will cease quite shortly. It might actually be quite useful in conjunction with Puppet and Cobbler (not sure if is for FreeBSD too). Regards, Kaya