Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:08:07 -0500 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> To: Martin Krzysiak <cinek@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading stable behind a proxy Message-ID: <20030521140807.66c5af04.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> In-Reply-To: <200305211849.36430.cinek@gmx.de> References: <200305211849.36430.cinek@gmx.de>
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On Wed, 21 May 2003 18:49:36 +0200 Martin Krzysiak <cinek@gmx.de> wrote: > [...] > I found out the proxy is broken and I cannot download files with > certain extensions (.ai for example; NO! It's not a filter! The proxy > is _really_ broken! It's running on Windows, so I don't know about > it.). So I cannot simply download files like '.aa' to '.zz' from the > http/ftp-mirrors. > > Additional remark: I am really glad that fetch works (.tgz & .tbz), so > I can build ports at least, but cvsup'ing the ports-tree is > impossible, too (I am always downloading it in one ports.tar.gz file). > > Small request: is it possible to use other extensions for the splitted > files on the servers? I know it's a difficult thing. I suppose, you > want to keep the 8.3 MS-DOS style. As someone who had to live with a severely brain-damaged proxy at work for more than a year, I feel your pain. (However, I think your complaints should be directed at to whoever is responsible for such a piece of trash, not FreeBSD...) If you can tell me exactly which files you can trouble downloading (by their URLs,) I can manually mirror them somewhere for you, under different names. -Chris
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