Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:50:35 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.interworks.org> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, marcus@miami.edu Subject: Re: fetch in passive mode fails (repost) Message-ID: <199901122150.PAA27172@iworks.interworks.org>
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> You also need to add another entry to your make.conf file in order to get > fetch to use passive transfers by default. Stick this line in > /etc/make.conf: > > FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS= -p It seems that the whole point of having FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is to specify that you're behind a firewall and that you want passive mode. FTP_PASSIVE_MODE predates fetch and was used for port building when the ports system used ftp. I've had this problem also, and I think bsd.port.mk should be fixed to use the -p option for fetch when FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is set. I don't care what FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is called, but I sure know that I want passive mode transfers when it is set, dammit! :-) Please file a PR on this, as it has been really urking me for a while. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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