On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:33:39AM +1000, Ian Schorr wrote: > Hello, > > I'm attempting to use Fink behind a firewall that blocks all access except > through HTTP (and SSL) and FTP. There is no explicit proxy - those > ports/protocols are transparently managed by a firewall. This means that CVS > and RSYNC are unavailable for updates. > > I can update using the point update, but that seems to pull an index that is > quite old, and I need newer updates for things that I'm working on. > > I've searched through for similar solutions, but everyone has said to either > use an HTTP proxy (not available) for CVS, or switch to point updates (seems > to be really old). > > Is anyone aware of a solution for this?
Do you have any machine outside this firewall (home computer, etc.)? rsync and cvs just download a bunch of files, so you could do that at home then "get them through the firewall" by copying to/from a USB stick. The files are available via http (sourceforge CVS has a web front-end download), but only individually--too many and too dispersed to download them one-by-one that way directly. One question: is the firewall "ports" or "protocols"? If it's "normal http port is open" and you had an outside machine, you could set up a proxy or redirector of some sort on its port 80 for a fink rsync or cvs server? dan -- Daniel Macks [email protected] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
