Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:44:26 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question about ports. Message-ID: <200506271444.26682.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <42BC529C.90902@dial.pipex.com> References: <60ba8a2905062411013bd79790@mail.gmail.com> <42BC529C.90902@dial.pipex.com>
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On Friday 24 June 2005 19:36, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Sam Ip wrote: > >I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, > >there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get > >through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is > >its ports collection > > > >1. Can you do a CVSup to update your ports via http? > > > >2. Can you install ports via http? > > Cvsup does not support http, but neither does it use ftp (see man cvsup, > especially the -p and -P options). It requires that a single port be > openable through your firewall (default 5999). There is an alternative, > which I have never used, called CTM (see handbook). See also sysutils/portsnap which uses http
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