Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:05:51 -0700 (PDT) From: eps+ques0703@ana.com (Eric P. Scott) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp Message-ID: <200703222305.l2MN5pM3000691@anna.ana.com> In-Reply-To: <823E470A-93A8-4B6B-899A-E337FB75CABD@goldmark.org>
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[Jeffrey Goldberg] >As an aside, I'd like to rant that there is no reason for ftp to >exist anymore. Sure it is stateful in a way that HTTP isn't, but >that isn't enough to justify its continued use. I have very good connectivity to several FTP-only mirror sites, and relatively poor connectivity to any that serve up HTTP. None of those servers are under my administrative control. Make trouble somewhere else, OK? >By default (at least in 6.2-RELEASE) fetch is called with the -p >option, thus making my request to the list even less coherent. This >is defined by > > FETCH_ARGS?= -ApRr > >in bsd.port.mk Well, um, no, not necessarily. For instance, I almost always use portupgrade with a -PP option, so my fetch defaults actually come from pkg_fetch, not bsd.port.mk. On my network, anything that attempts IPv6 resolution is bad, so I put the following in my /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf: ENV['PKG_FETCH'] = "/usr/bin/fetch -4pao '%2$s' '%1$s'" This speeds things up immensely... -=EPS=-
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