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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:00:56 +1300
From:      "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
To:        "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.interworks.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fetch in passive mode fails (repost)
Message-ID:  <19990112220026.JYUX682101.mta1-rme@wocker>
In-Reply-To: <199901122150.PAA27172@iworks.interworks.org>

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On 12 Jan 99, at 15:50, Daniel M. Eischen wrote:

> 
> > You also need to add another entry to your make.conf file in order to
> > get fetch to use passive transfers by default.  Stick this line in
> > /etc/make.conf:
> >
> > FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=      -p
> 
> It seems that the whole point of having FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is to
> specify that you're behind a firewall and that you want passive
> mode.  FTP_PASSIVE_MODE predates fetch and was used for port
> building when the ports system used ftp.
> 
> I've had this problem also, and I think bsd.port.mk should be
> fixed to use the -p option for fetch when FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
> is set.  I don't care what FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is called, but
> I sure know that I want passive mode transfers when it is
> set, dammit! :-)
> 
> Please file a PR on this, as it has been really urking me for
> a while.

I do belive it has already been submitted.  Go to 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi and do a simple search on 
FTP.  I found:

o [1998/01/20] ports/5530 asami    fetch (in make fetch stage) do not use 
passive ftp mode even I set FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/make.conf

Full details at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=5530




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