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Date:      Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:32:19 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf 
Message-ID:  <14364.918095539@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Feb 1999 15:57:54 PST." <199902032357.PAA24779@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> 

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>  * Actually, I was just about to submit a patch that switches off of this
>  * to add -p to FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS in the FETCH=/usr/bin/fetch case.  Even
>  * though it's an environment variable, it would be nice to have it
>  * actually work for both those who have set it in their environment OR
>  * in /etc/make.conf (since there is really no place reasonable for
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but will pkg_add or sysinstall work correctly 
> in passive mode if I set this in /etc/make.conf?

I already address this question above - please read the paragraph
again *more carefully*.  Thanks.

> If not, this will just add more confusion.  It *is* an environment
> variable and should be treated as one -- everybody knows how to set
> them. :)

It will be both.  Please read the paragraph again *more carefully*.
Thanks. :)

>  * specifying a protoype environment save login.conf, which doesn't
>  * actually work for this anyway).
> 
> Why doesn't login.conf work?

Tried that feature lately? :)

- Jordan

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