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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:55:05 +0200
From:      Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
Cc:        "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg periodic with proxy
Message-ID:  <D02CE582-1EF6-4B89-B6E5-03A560F16D5C@grem.de>
In-Reply-To: <53EC5E02.9090209@netfence.it>
References:  <53EC5E02.9090209@netfence.it>

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> On 14 Aug 2014, at 08:58, Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote:
>=20
> Hello.
>=20
> /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/410.pkg-audit is failing with:
> >pkg: http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2: Permission denied
> >pkg: cannot fetch vulnxml file
>=20
> The reason is that this machine needs to go through a proxy; in fact it wo=
rks if I launch it manually (where I have HTTP_PROXY set).
>=20
> How to deal with this without modifying the script itself?

I worked around this here by setting HTTP_PROXY in /etc/crontab.

You could also set it in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf by using PKG_ENV. I didn't,=
 because I run my own repo and I only want a proxy for pkg audit.

>=20
> bye & Thanks
>    av.
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