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Date:      Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:34:12 +0000
From:      Marcus Henschel <marcus@hamburg.de>
To:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HTTP_PROXY in /etc/make.conf doesn't make it into the environment
Message-ID:  <20020131183400.7103D37B404@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200201311319.g0VDJ4P35972@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
References:  <200201311319.g0VDJ4P35972@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>

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On Thursday 31 January 2002 13:19, you wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> In /etc/defaults/make.conf there are sample entries
> suggesting that you could set HTTP_PROXY or FTP_PROXY
> in /etc/make.conf and have fetch et. al. honour it -
> like when installing ports.
>
> Unfortunately this has no effect at all on the operation of
> "make install" in some port's directory. You have to setenv
> these values for fetch to work.
>
> If this is on purpose, why are these sample entries in
> /etc/defaults/make.conf?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick M. Hausen
> Technical Director
Hi Patrick,

you should put:
export http_proxy=192.76.124.111:8080 (adress:port of your proxy server)
in your /etc/profile or in your .bashrc file if you are using bash!

regards

Marcus Henschel



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