From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 31 10:34: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from paloma14.e0k.nbg-hannover.de (paloma14.e0k.nbg-hannover.de [62.181.130.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7103D37B404 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:34:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20581 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2002 18:33:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO there) ([62.109.78.166]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 31 Jan 2002 18:33:58 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Marcus Henschel To: "Patrick M. Hausen" Subject: Re: HTTP_PROXY in /etc/make.conf doesn't make it into the environment Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:34:12 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <200201311319.g0VDJ4P35972@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <200201311319.g0VDJ4P35972@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020131183400.7103D37B404@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 31 January 2002 13:19, you wrote: > Hi all! > > In /etc/defaults/make.conf there are sample entries > suggesting that you could set HTTP_PROXY or FTP_PROXY > in /etc/make.conf and have fetch et. al. honour it - > like when installing ports. > > Unfortunately this has no effect at all on the operation of > "make install" in some port's directory. You have to setenv > these values for fetch to work. > > If this is on purpose, why are these sample entries in > /etc/defaults/make.conf? > > Thanks, > > Patrick M. Hausen > Technical Director Hi Patrick, you should put: export http_proxy=192.76.124.111:8080 (adress:port of your proxy server) in your /etc/profile or in your .bashrc file if you are using bash! regards Marcus Henschel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message