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Date:      Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:42:34 +0100
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: installing through a proxy
Message-ID:  <20030212154234.A6918@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20030211180815.A1491@eborcom.com>; from tom@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:08:15PM %2B0000
References:  <200302111553.QAA29889@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20030211180815.A1491@eborcom.com>

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On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:08:15PM +0000, Tom Hukins wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:53:59PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > Is it possible to install ports via a proxy http server?
> > E.g. setting something like HTTP_PROXY and packages are fetched through
> > the proxyserver?
> 
> See the example make.conf that lives in
> /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf on 5.x or /etc/defaults/make.conf on
> 4.x.  Search for the word "firewall" and take a look at the FETCH_ENV
> declarations underneath.

Hmm. I looked into 5.0-R /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf but 
no sign of firewall or FETCH_ENV.

I also found FETCH_CMD in the make.conf man page. 

/usr/ports/Mk/* contains some mentioning of FETCH_ENV.


Well, will try to set up natd and see if passive ftp (fetch -p ) works.


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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@rwth-aachen.de

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