From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Mar 5 7:20:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8E11519D for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 07:20:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) id HAA51613; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 07:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 07:20:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903051520.HAA51613@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Stanislav Shalunov Subject: Re: ports/10377: `make' in ports does not honor {f,ht}tp_proxy settings Reply-To: Stanislav Shalunov Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/10377; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Stanislav Shalunov To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/10377: `make' in ports does not honor {f,ht}tp_proxy settings Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:09:33 -0500 (EST) Bill Fenner has written: > > What was the reason to use `fetch' rather than `ftp' as > > FETCH_CMD in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk? > > "ftp" did not support http: URL's (since it's ... uh ... "ftp"). Uh? The NetBSD ftp(1) (now in FreeBSD) supports http:// stuff for me just fine. Am I special or something? And it uses same environment for proxies as all the other programs. fetch(1) had to invent its own names and formats, for some reason. -- stanislav shalunov@lynxhub.att.com | 732-576-3252 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message