[Fwd: Support for default passive ftp mode in fetch]

[Jukka A. Ukkonen]

To be really efficient I tried to send the following message to "core-team"
which obviously failed. So, here is the same minor change proposal sent
to freebsd-questions. I hope some of the people who can take appropriate
action are on this list.

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Support for default passive ftp mode in fetch
From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau at mawit.com>
Date: Sun, September 28, 2003 0:57
To: <FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org>, <core-team at freebsd.org>

Hi!

The fact that fetch which is used by ports make when a distfile is not
already around has had no means to make it use passive ftp mode
by default has often caused me problems.
So, I finally decided to add this feature analogous to the plain ftp client
which uses the environment variable FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. Now my
modified fetch also obeys this environment variable. Find the diffs
attached. I hope everybody agrees this change would be a useful addition to
the base distribution.

-- 
        Cheers,
                // jau
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  /    Jukka A. Ukkonen,                            Mawit Ltd, Finland
 /__   M.Sc. (sw-eng & cs)                    (Phone) +358-500-606-671
   /   Internet: Jukka.Ukkonen(a)Mawit.Com      (Home) +358-9-6215-280
  /    Internet: ukkonen(a)nic.funet.fi
 v     Internet: jau(a)iki.fi

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