Updating ports over Proxy (was: no subject)

[Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]]

On Tuesday 20 January 2004 14:46, saad Hage (hotmail) wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  How I can update Ports via Wingate Proxy? Actually I receive an error
> saying me he cannot found the host name.
Try setting HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY before you upgrade / add a package like 
this :
export HTTP_PROXY=the.proxy.addres:8080
(Change the address & port to that of the proxy server)

grtz,
Daan