Updating freebsd without cvsup

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 03:38:42PM +0100, Vittorio wrote:
> At office I have a freebsd 5.4 server to run postgresql. I'd like to 
> update the ports in it from time to time but cvsup doesn't seem to work 
> behind our proxy. In fact, in make.conf I have the following two lines:
> 
> FETCH_ENV = HTTP_PROXY=http://user:password@proxy.com:8080
> FETCH_ENV = 
> FTP_PROXY=http://user:password@proxy.com:8080
> 
> which work smoothly when 
> I compile a port via "make install clean" downloading the needed 
> sources BUT they seem to be useless when cvsup is used. No way of 
> reaching the cvsup server because unknown (is the same I use 
> succesfully at home with an adsl connection!)!
> 
> Is there another 
> alternative way of defining the proxy OR any other way of getting a new 
> source three to be copied to the server, e.g., by means of a cd burnt 
> at home?

cvsup doesn't use HTTP or FTP, so the above are not used.  Try
portsnap instead, which uses HTTP.

Kris
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