Port iso-codes
Joshua Root
jmr at macports.org
Fri Sep 12 16:44:43 PDT 2008
William Siegrist wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>
>> On Sep 4, 2008, at 11:28 PM, William Siegrist wrote:
>>> Someone could provide a mirror that is located in an FTP-friendly
>>> network. Or maintainers of FTP-only ports could host them on HTTP
>>> long enough for the mirror to get a copy.
>>
>> Or we could do some sort of ftp->http gateway for the macosforge
>> machines (perhaps something as simple as a remote shell on another
>> host that could download the file to a temp location that available
>> for http).
>>
>> I have a host we could use, if you're interested.
>
> The server just uses the built in mirror command, so that would have to
> be modified to check for some sort of FTP_PROXY env variable.
Fetch should respect FTP_PROXY. If not, that's a bug.
- Josh
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