> Did you set proxies via "fink configure" ?

Yes.  When I manually download .info and .patch files
for a particular package and then do fink install package,
everything works automatically as it should.

> According to the Environment Variables section of "info cvs" for the version
> which comes with Leopard (assuming that's what you're on, too), you might
> want to set CVS_PROXY_PORT to match your http proxy:

This doesn't seem to make any difference.
What should CVSROOT be set as?  I have no such variable by
default.  I have played around without apparent effect.

s


On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

> I'm cc'ing the fink-users mailing list so that others can provide input or
> benefit from the discussion.
>
> I don't recall that we ever came to a resolution on this.
>
> Did you set proxies via "fink configure" ?
>
> According to the Environment Variables section of "info cvs" for the version
> which comes with Leopard (assuming that's what you're on, too), you might
> want to set CVS_PROXY_PORT to match your http proxy:
>
> `$CVS_PROXY_PORT'
>     Used in client-server mode to set the port to use when accessing a
>     server via a web proxy, if the port is not specified in the
>     CVSROOT.  Works with GSSAPI, and the password authentication
>     protocol.  *note Remote repositories::
>
>
> (replacing the proxy stuff by those that are applicable to your network)
>
> On Friday 28 March 2008 03:42:44 pm Stephen M Jones wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Did you or your correspondent ever resolve the rsync
>> problem in the [Fink-beginners] thread below?  I
>> have exactly the same problem with rsync.  I'm
>> behind a firewall and I had a hunch that that is
>> the problem but I've no idea how to proceed.
>>
>> There's a similar problem with selfupdate-cvs, as follows
>>
>> Now logging into the CVS server. When CVS asks you for a password, just
>> press return (i.e. the password is empty).
>> /usr/bin/su smj -c 'cvs
>> -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/fink login' Logging
>> in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvsroot/fink CVS
>> password:
>> cvs [login aborted]: connect to > >>
>>>> On Mar 16, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>>> On Mar 16, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Andrew Friedman wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recently reinstalled fink 0.28 on mac os 10.5.2 following the
>>>>>> instructions on http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The installation seemed to work. However, when I run 'fink
>>>>>> selfupdate', I get the following connection error message:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [Macintosh-4:~/fink-0.28.0] andrewfriedman% fink selfupdate
>>>>>> rsync -az -q  rsync://bru.be.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//
>>>>>> TIMESTAMP /
>>>>>> sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
>>>>>> rsync: failed to connect to bru.be.eu.finkmirrors.net: Connection
>>>>>> refused (61)
>>>>>> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/
>>>>>> rsync-30/rsync/clientserver.c(94)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I get similar messages when I try different mirrors.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have any suggestions? I am connecting from the UK, and I am a
>>>>>> relative newcomer to both the UNIX terminal and to fink.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you in advance,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrew Friedman
>>>>>
>>>>> Which mirrors have you tried?  The bru. one has been reported as
>>>>> being dodgy, but others work, at least here.
>
>
>> fink.cvs.sourceforge.net(66.35.250.97):2401 failed: Connection refused ###
>> execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 1
>> Failed: Logging into the CVS server for anonymous read-only access failed.
>>
>> At the moment I'm getting round the inability to selfupdate
>> by manually downloading the .info and .patch files for the
>> packages I need: very slow.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> Thread from [Fink-beginners]
>>
>>> Are you going through a firewall by chance?
>>>
>>> On Mar 16, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Andrew Friedman wrote:
>>>> Thanks for getting back to me. I reset 'fink configure' to the U.S.
>>>> mirror and I still get the same error:
>>>>
>>>> rsync -az -q  rsync://msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /
>>>> sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
>>>> rsync: failed to connect to msn.wi.us.finkmirrors.net: Connection
>>>> refused (61)
>>>> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/
>>>> rsync-30/rsync/clientserver.c(94)
>>>>
>>>> It retries other mirrors, which give me similar error messages.
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>
> -- 
> Alexander K. Hansen
> akh AT finkproject DOT org
> Fink User Liaison and Documenter
>
>


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