From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 20 15: 5: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24DCB37C02C; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:04:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA03224; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 09:15:43 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 09:15:41 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: current@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: [PATCH]: Teach make.conf about FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS Message-ID: <20000220091540.A2628@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Reply-To: current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ Sent to -current and -ports, followups set to -current ] Here's another trivial patch that people might like to comment on before I commit it. I'm doing more and more FreeBSD installs recently at various client sites, and adding "FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-p" to make.conf is just one of those standard things you have to do if there's a firewall in place. Any one got any objection to mentioning that fact, with the included patch? N Index: make.conf =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/defaults/make.conf,v retrieving revision 1.91 diff -u -r1.91 make.conf --- make.conf 2000/02/09 04:08:18 1.91 +++ make.conf 2000/02/20 09:10:25 @@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ # #MOTIFLIB= -L${X11BASE}/lib -lXm # +# If you are behind a firewall, this will force port fetching to use +# passive mode, which is required for most types of firewall. +# +#FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS= -p # # If you're resident in the USA, this will help various ports to determine # whether or not they should attempt to comply with the various U.S. -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message