Way of using package manager over http and a proxy?

jimdaworm · 04-05-2005, 03:56 AM

Hi everyone, I am very new to Freebsd, I was just wondering if there is a way of getting the package manager to download packages over http instead of ftp and also for it to use a proxy??

Thanks in advance

sigsegv · 04-05-2005, 07:02 AM

You can set the environment variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy to the hostname:port of your http proxy, and it'll work great.

Code:

# If you use csh/tcsh
setenv http_proxy your.proxy.com:3128
setenv ftp_proxy your.proxy.com:3128

# If you use sh/bash
export http_proxy=your.proxy.com:3128
export ftp_proxy=your.proxy.com:3128

jimdaworm · 04-05-2005, 02:56 PM

Thank you very much sigsegv, that was exactly what I wanted to know

Is there anyway off the top of your head that you can make it only download packages via http??

I am going to read up on this anyway.

Thanks again

sigsegv · 04-05-2005, 05:25 PM

Well, not really. The port's Makefile lists the location of the tarballs it needs, so if they're on an FTP server, you either have to fetch them and drop them in /usr/ports/distfiles, or proxy the FTP connection over your HTTP proxy. The former is a pain in the butt, but the latter is as easy as setting ftp_proxy.

jimdaworm · 04-15-2005, 04:19 AM

Thanks again sigsegv. I think I will just download manually the big packages and use the package manager for the smaller ones and getting dependencies