From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 27 23:07:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08273 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:07:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08265 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:06:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA10301; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:36:04 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801280706.RAA10301@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Tim Vanderhoek cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Warner Losh , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 01:16:15 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:36:03 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I am fairly sure that it will just recursivley install the dependancies, bu > > haven't tried it recently. > It works because you have the whole ports tree expanded into > PORTSDIR on your computer. It's the people who download a single > port that have to check the dependencies themselves, otherwise > the build will continue along merrily until it fails due to a > missing dependency. Ewww, that *is* bad... > > I suppose I could just change fetch so it uses http_proxy and ftp_proxy as > > well :) > HTTP_PROXY=my.very.own.proxy fetch http://my.distant.site/your/file > > and the related FTP_PROXY? Changing the environment isn't > considered the same as changing fetch(1)! ;-) Yes, but since wget, netscape, and lynx all use {http,ftp}_proxy, I think changing fetch wouldn't hurt too bad.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | ---------------------------------------------------------------------