Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp
Chris Slothouber
chris at hier7.com
Mon Mar 19 04:27:18 UTC 2007
Hi Jeffrey,
Jeffrey Goldberg 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?
>
> I know that I can temporarily change my firewall rules, but I think that
> it would be a cleaner solution to just tell portupgrade to not use
> active mode FTP. (Or maybe fetch itself when it fails with active mode
> ftp should try again with passive).
in /etc/make.conf:
FETCH_CMD?= /usr/bin/fetch -ApRr
man fetch as well.
Hope this helps!
- Chris
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