Ports proxy configuration?

Vittorio De Martino vdm.fbsd at virgilio.it
Wed May 11 04:20:18 PDT 2005


On Wednesday 11 May 2005 07:59, Xu Qiang wrote:
> Hi, guys:
>
> I want to install some softwares from FreeBSD Ports collection. But without
> configuration of proxy, it can't connect out to fetch the src tar balls,
> and compile/install.
>
> I searched the handbook but didn't find any useful info about setting of
> proxy for Ports.
>
> Any suggestions?

Xu, use the following in /etc/make.conf

FETCH_ENV = HTTP_PROXY=http://user:passwd@proxy.name:80
FETCH_ENV = HTTP_PROXY=http://user:passwd@proxy.name:80

It works for me.
Ciao
Vittorio


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