From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 13:50:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15753 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:50:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iworks.interworks.org (iworks.interworks.org [128.255.18.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15748 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:50:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deischen@iworks.interworks.org) Received: (from deischen@localhost) by iworks.interworks.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA27172; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:50:35 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:50:35 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" Message-Id: <199901122150.PAA27172@iworks.interworks.org> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Subject: Re: fetch in passive mode fails (repost) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, marcus@miami.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You also need to add another entry to your make.conf file in order to get > fetch to use passive transfers by default. Stick this line in > /etc/make.conf: > > FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS= -p It seems that the whole point of having FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is to specify that you're behind a firewall and that you want passive mode. FTP_PASSIVE_MODE predates fetch and was used for port building when the ports system used ftp. I've had this problem also, and I think bsd.port.mk should be fixed to use the -p option for fetch when FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is set. I don't care what FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is called, but I sure know that I want passive mode transfers when it is set, dammit! :-) Please file a PR on this, as it has been really urking me for a while. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message