From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 12:08:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69EDE37B401 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 12:08:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F3E43F3F for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 12:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpressey@catseye.mb.ca) Received: from pd2mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr2so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.109])2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 13:07:06 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml5so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.149]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HF9004783RUBN@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 13:07:06 -0600 (MDT) Received: from www.kallisti.ca (h24-70-180-74.wp.shawcable.net [24.70.180.74]) 2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 13:07:06 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:08:07 -0500 From: Chris Pressey In-reply-to: <200305211849.36430.cinek@gmx.de> To: Martin Krzysiak Message-id: <20030521140807.66c5af04.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies - http://www.catseye.mb.ca/ MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <200305211849.36430.cinek@gmx.de> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading stable behind a proxy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:08:23 -0000 On Wed, 21 May 2003 18:49:36 +0200 Martin Krzysiak 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