From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 14:46:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6D11065680 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:46:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49128FC17 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg24 with SMTP id 24so1971937wyg.13 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.196.208 with SMTP id eh16mr5583638wbb.37.1309185988646; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fr17sm4140412wbb.57.2011.06.27.07.46.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E0897BE.5030001@my.gd> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:46:22 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dennis Glatting References: <4E088E5E.6000106@my.gd> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using a "special" proxy for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:46:30 -0000 On 6/27/11 4:27 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: > > > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > >> On 6/27/11 4:52 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: >>> >>> I have a requirement where I need to archive ports used across twenty >>> hosts for a year or more. I've decided to do this using Squid and to >>> take advantage of Squid's cache when updating common ports across those >>> hosts. >>> >>> (BTW, at another site I used rsync to sync /usr/ports/distfiles across >>> the hosts to a local master site then specified _MASTER_SITES_DEFAULT in >>> make.conf to a FTP server on the local site. That method works when the >>> port is previously cached however if the file isn't in the cache and I >>> simultaneously install the port across ten hosts, the port is fetched >>> ten times. Sigh.) >>> >>> I have a Squid proxy installed that isn't meant for every-day/every-user >>> use and requires authentication. (Users either go through another Squid >>> proxy or direct.) The special Squid proxy works. No surprise there. >>> Authentication works. No surprise there. >>> >>> What I need is a method to embed into make.conf a proxy specification >>> for fetch. Setting the environment variable HTTP_PROXY from the login >>> shell /is not/ preferred because the account is used by different >>> administrators, I don't what the special proxy accidentally polluted >>> with non-port stuff, and it would only create confusion. >>> >>> Setting http_proxy in make.conf does not work. .netrc doesn't appear to >>> be a viable method (if it did, I could specify FETCH_ARGS in make.conf). >>> >> >> What about using a NFS share for /usr/ports/distfiles ? > > Many of these servers provide network/system services across a WAN. If a > link goes down or is congested, NFS may hang them all. NFS also provides > certain security challenges. > > What about using a SSHFS share for /usr/ports/distfiles ? *wink*