Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:19:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.interworks.org> Cc: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetch in passive mode fails (repost) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901121718310.10557-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <199901122150.PAA27172@iworks.interworks.org>
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I agree with your complaint...there should be one variable to control this. But why haven't you filed a PR for this yourself? Joe Clarke On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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