Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:04:16 -0500
Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey at goldmark.org> wrote:

> On my perimeter firewall, I default deny outbound traffic.  This
> cuts off fetching using active FTP.  Is there some way that I can
> tell portupgrade to pass the -p flag to fetch?

This doesn't make any sense unless you meant to say deny *in*bound
traffic.

If you really are denying outbound TCP, you need to configure an
FTP proxy, and configure fetch to use whatever that supports. This may
mean switching fetch from passive (the default) to active ftp.