From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 14:01:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17187 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:01:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (203-96-92-1.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17178 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:01:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990112220026.JYUX682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:00:26 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Daniel M. Eischen" Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:00:56 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: fetch in passive mode fails (repost) Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199901122150.PAA27172@iworks.interworks.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990112220026.JYUX682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message