portsnap - broken metadata

[RW]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:22:59 +0000
RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:20:53 +0000
> Angelin Lalev <lalev.angelin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I have proxy server that requires username and password and I have
> > set the HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY environment variables accordingly.
> > (HTTP_PROXY = FTP_PROXY =
> > USERNAME:PASSWORD at proxy.uni-svishtov.bg:8080)
> > 
> > portsnap --debug shows, among other rows the following error
> > message:
> > 
> > phttpget: host = USERNAME, port =
> > PASSWORD at proxy.uni-svishtov.bg:8080: servname not
> >  supported for ai_socktype
> > 
> > Seems to me like a bug somewhere in portsnap. Any help?
> 
> It looks to be a bug in phttpget, which is a download utility
> used by portsnap and freebsd-update. It supports pipelining, so
> it's very fast at fetching a large number of small files, but in all
> other respects it simpler and less mature than fetch.
> 
> As temporary workaround I would suggest you backup portsnap and change
> the line:
> 
> PHTTPGET=/usr/libexec/phttpget
> 
> to 
> 
> PHTTPGET=/usr/bin/fetch

I see that isn't going to work since phttpget needs it's arguments in
the form 

phttpget server file1 file2 ... fileN

you'd need to wrap fetch if you want to try that.

Anyway, I've CC'd Colin Percival which I forgot to do before, and I
suggest you open a PR.