Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:26:35 +0200 From: vittorio <vdemart1@tin.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating freebsd without cvsup Message-ID: <200509200826.35867.vdemart1@tin.it> In-Reply-To: <432AF27E.10804@ashleymoran.me.uk> References: <3360624.1126887229256.JavaMail.root@pswm4.cp.tin.it> <432AF27E.10804@ashleymoran.me.uk>
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Alle 18:27, venerd=C3=AC 16 settembre 2005, Ashley Moran ha scritto: > Vittorio wrote: > > Thanks. > > I've just compiled the portsnap sources and put the following > > in /usr/local/etc/portsnap.conf: > > > > # Defaults: > > WORKDIR=3D/usr/local/portsnap > > PORTSDIR=3D/usr/ports > > KEYPRINT=3D9b5feee6d69f170e3dd0a2c8e469ddbd64f13f978f2f3aede40c98633216= c330 > > URL=3Dhttp://portsnap.daemonology.net > > > > BUT > > > > # portsnap fetch > > Fetching > > public key... failed. > > > > What's wrong with the original key in the > > portsnap.conf.sample file? > > > > Thanks again > > Vittorio > > The key is fine. Perhaps you need to run portsnap as > > # HTTP_PROXY=3D<your proxy> portsnap fetch > > to get round your proxy > Well, after thourough examination and a word with the network administrator= I=20 learnt that my FreeBSD 5.4 client cannot resolve the name (and the IP too) = of=20 portsnap.daemonology.net because it is behind a firewall and a proxy (which= =20 =2Dby the way - I had already defined via both $HTTP_PROXY and $http_proxy;= as=20 I stated in so doing "make install" under a port works flawlessly downloadi= ng=20 whatever is needed!). According to the admin (windows 2000 network) portsnap is not able to use t= he=20 name resolution of the proxy as other programs like browsers can and relies= =20 on the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf only. Any idea for this poor newbie? Ciao Vittorio=20
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