I asked how to pass the -p argument to fetch when doing a port upgrade.
Answers here, and further digging confirm that the presuppositions
behind my question were wrong.
First of all, the problem that I was having had nothing to do with
active vs passive FTP. I had butchered all FTP traffic with my
firewall rules.
<Rant>
As an aside, I'd like to rant that there is no reason for ftp to
exist anymore. Sure it is stateful in a way that HTTP isn't, but
that isn't enough to justify its continued use.
<Qualification>
Of course having recently displayed my ignorance of how these
things work,
I'm in no position to make such proclamations.
</Qualification>
</Rant>
By default (at least in 6.2-RELEASE) fetch is called with the -p
option, thus making my request to the list even less coherent. This
is defined by
FETCH_ARGS?= -ApRr
in bsd.port.mk
<Rant>
As far as I can tell this and many other configuration options are not
documented anywhere outside of the .mk files themselves. Is that
really how
things should be?
</Rant>
Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone for their help and patience.
-j
--
Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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