ports/82309: option to download ports via http only

[Vasil Dimov]

The following reply was made to PR ports/82309; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Vasil Dimov <vd at datamax.bg>
To: vaidab at Safe-mail.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/82309: option to download ports via http only
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:33:42 +0300

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 On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:51:59AM -0400, vaidab at Safe-mail.net wrote:
 > >Description:
 >         I am in a campus where ftp is filtered and I would like an option to choose the protocol by which ports are fetched.
 >         e.g. define PORTS_USE_HTTP_ONLY="yes" in make.conf
 
 To avoid binding only to http and ftp protocols I suggest that it would
 be better to have PORTS_FETCH_PROTOCOLS= or just FETCH_PROTOCOLS= that
 contains a list of allowed protocols. It will just skip sites that do
 not start with one of the strings specified in this variable. For
 example:
 PORTS_FETCH_PROTOCOLS=http://
 will skip ftp://ftp.foo.org/x/y/z from a list of sites like:
 http://a/b/c ftp://ftp.foo.org/x/y/z http://bar/baz
 
 Or even we can have similar _REJECT variable in addition that removes
 only sites that start with specified strings.
 
 Does this sound reasonable?
 
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