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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2002 08:59:34 +0100
From:      Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>
To:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Marcus Henschel <marcus@hamburg.de>
Subject:   Re: HTTP_PROXY in /etc/make.conf doesn't make it into the environment
Message-ID:  <20020201085934.C62292@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <20020131183400.7103D37B404@hub.freebsd.org>; from marcus@hamburg.de on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 07:34:12PM %2B0000
References:  <200201311319.g0VDJ4P35972@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20020131183400.7103D37B404@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 07:34:12PM +0000, Marcus Henschel wrote:
> 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!

To be absolutely shure that it works properly, I learnt that you should
have:
export http_proxy=http://192.76.124.111:8080

and the same goes for ftp proxy except for switch http:// to ftp://
> 
> regards
> 
> Marcus Henschel
> 
> 
> 
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