Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:29:19 -0700 (PDT) From: pmgleitz@research.att.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/19246: Poor error message when fetching files with active mode ftp fails in bsd.port.mk. Message-ID: <20000613162919.2E88F37C120@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 19246
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Poor error message when fetching files with active mode ftp fails in bsd.port.mk.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jun 13 09:30:02 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Peter Gleitz
>Release: 3.4-STABLE
>Organization:
Research
>Environment:
FreeBSD britten.research.att.com 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #0: Mon Jan 31 16:48:10 EST 2000 pmgleitz@britten.research.att.com:/usr/cvsrc/src/sys/compile/PMG_KERNEL_1 i386
>Description:
I first ran into this when trying to build a kame application with
bsd.port.mk, but the problem probably should be corrected in other
makefiles.
I run from behind a firewall that only permits passive mode ftp. When
the make tries to fetch files from various repositories, /usr/bin/fetch
fails to open the data channel in active mode ftp and after timing out
moves on to the next repository, where it fails again for the same reason.
At the end of this doomed iteration over repositories, the make gives up
and advises fetching the files by hand. It seems to me this error message
could be slightly more informative, perhaps advising that /etc/make.conf
has an FTP_PASSIVE_MODE flag that should be investigated.
The message you presently get is:
${ECHO_MSG} ">> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this";\
${ECHO_MSG} ">> port manually into ${_DISTDIR} and try again."; \
Surely this could be expanded to suggest the possibility of setting the
passive mode flags before having to deal with the painful alternative
of hand fetching.
As another possibility, the script might also be made smart enough
to realize what has happened and either recover from the failure
by setting passive mode or at least advising with an appropriate
message about /etc/make.conf
When I run an active mode ftp fetch from the command line, after a
fashion, I get:
PORT command successful.
Sending: RETR sendmail893+3.2W.patch.gz
Can't build data connection: Operation timed out.
fetch: ftp://ftp.kyoto.wide.ad.jp//pub/mail/sendmail/sendmail893+3.2W.patch.gz: FTP error:
fetch: Can't open data connection
and surely this would be easy enough to parse and decide that a passive
mode ftp would surely be more likely to succeed, so why not have the script
say so.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
See full description for two suggestions.
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