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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.
> 
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