Allow folloing 302 codes in FETCH_ARGS in bsd.port.mk

Anonymous swell.k at gmail.com
Mon Jul 19 21:56:34 UTC 2010


Baptiste Daroussin <baptiste.daroussin at gmail.com> writes:

> 2010/7/19 Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>:
>>
>> We have already had the discussion about this issue and we're not going to
>> be creating ports that download random files from VCS repos. So yes, the
>> person/team who is responsible for the port will have to provide a tarball
>> of a known-good version. But that's completely unrelated to the idea of -A
>> in FETCH_ARGS.
>
> I agree with I was just trying to get one more arguments against the
> -A by default :)
>
> The real problem for me is that it makes fetch fail with some
> authenticated proxies; (yes I know I can work around with changing
> FETCH_ARGS in my make.conf, but I can't see any interest of keeping
> the -A or at least I'm really interested in knowing why it is so
> important to keep it.

Wasn't authentication with `-A' option fixed in r209632?


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