Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:36:03 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 Message-ID: <199801280706.RAA10301@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 01:16:15 CDT." <Pine.GSO.3.96.980128010932.19700B-100000@james.hwcn.org>
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> > 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 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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