Hi guys, Does anyone know if it is possible to completely disable ftp in the package management utilities; pkg_add, syspatch, sysupgrade etc?
My PKG_PATH references http:// urls, as does /etc/install. But I cannot stop these tools trying to use ftp which does not work! :( Every time I try and install a bunch of packages, some work fine via http, and then some will fall back to ftp, which of course fails. However when I test the url for the package it reports it could not download, due to the ftp connect timeout, the download works fine via http etc. So it is very frustrating. We cannot use ftpproxy as we use rdomains, and running the ftpproxy daemon within the rdomain that has the default route to the internet doesn’t seem to work. And generally speaking no one in my last two companies has ever asked me to make ftp work. As ftp is very much dead in most cases, could we please stop using it for package management tools? :( I cannot update any of my OpenBSD servers which reside inside the firewall. Only the firewall itself get et updates because of the ftp dependence :( Thanks for your time. Andy. Sent from a teeny tiny keyboard, so please excuse typos
