Which FTPs are most used by ports?

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Tue May 13 12:42:17 UTC 2008


On Mon, 12 May 2008 22:15:16 -0400
Francisco Reyes <lists at stringsutils.com> wrote:

> I am about to install FreeBSD at a new job. They block ftp, along
> with most other ports.

You can set MASTER_SITE_REGEX= ^http: if you have http access. And fetch
also supports ftp requests over http, if you have access to an http
proxy that supports it

> I may be able to get a whole open for the freebsd server to be able
> to ftp from some specific machines. Any suggestions what machines I
> should add to the list?
> 
> For programs I know about I plan to do "make fetch-recursive" at home
> and then copy the /usr/ports/distfile directory.

make checksum-recursive is better


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