Thanks Alex!  As long as I won't be doing a selfupdate often, it's not too hard 
to modify the configuration file to disable the proxy temporarily.

~ David

On Dec 6, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

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>> 
>> I am a long time fink user, using it behind a corporate http
>> firewall which has forced me to use the CVS update method instead
>> of rsync.  My corporate firewalls permit CVS through directly.  I
>> cannot use CVS through the HTTP proxy since the HTTP proxy blocks
>> connections that don't target port 80.  My fink setup was quite old
>> so I completely started afresh on my new Lion based system.  In the
>> latest fink release, fink apparently tries to be smart and insists
>> that CVS use the http proxy setting I have with fink.  This fails.
>> How do I fix this?  I tried temporarily disabling my fink http
>> proxy setting but as soon as the CVS update finishes, it
>> immediately times out & fails when it it tries to fetch something
>> over the web.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> ~ David
> You can switch your proxy back on once you're done with your update
> via CVS.
> 
> The base packages which were being downloaded during the selfupdate
> can be updated through "fink update <package>" or "fink update-all" as
> well.
> 
> - -- 
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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