On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Michael S wrote: > Good day everyone! > > I have a portupgrade related question. I am behind a proxy and fetch > doesn't appear to cope with it very well. I installed wget and it > works great. I updated the pkgtools.conf to reflect that, however > portupgrade insists on using fetch for some reason. At first I thought > that portupgrade ignored its configuration file, however once or twice > I misstyped something and it did catch it. > Any hints? > > P.S. I am running 5.5 if it makes any difference, although I think it > shouldn't.
Hi Michael, I don't think that portupgrade actually downloads source code from the internet. Rather, portupgrade is a bit of a wrapper around the normal FreeBSD ports code. According to the handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html The ports system uses fetch(1) in order to download any files. I thought that there was a way to convince the ports to use a different file retreiver, but I don't see anything in the handbook. Have you tried setting the ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment variables, so that fetch can work with your proxy? HTH, -Andy Reitz. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
