rsync errors

[Boey Maun Suang]

Hi Mark,

> - Yes, I have to use a network, which prohibits to use port 873. I  
> have to use a proxy server to connect to those services, which  
> require this port, for example. Do you know how to configure  
> MacPorts to connect via a proxy? I didn't find any ways to  
> configure it.

I'm pretty sure that there's no setting in MacPorts per se.  Instead,  
try setting the RSYNC_PROXY environment variable (see the "Connecting  
to an rsync server" section of the rsync(1) man page).  If that  
doesn't work, you could also try tunnelling the rsync connection over  
ssh, though I don't know whether or not this will work.  To test  
this, add '--rsh="<ssh_or_path_to_ssh>" to the rsync_options line in $ 
{prefix}/etc/ports/ports.conf (see also "Connecting to an rsync  
server over a remote shell program" in the rsync(1) man page).  You  
might also try running a local proxy to proxy connections to the  
network proxy, and see if you can tunnel that way.

If none of the above work, you could see if you can check out the  
dports part of the trunk from svn [1] and using that as a local port  
tree by editing ${prefix}/etc/ports/sources.conf to add the path to  
which you checked out a working copy (before the rsync one).  Keep in  
mind that this will mean: (a) that you will get warnings about having  
multiple port definitions (this isn't really a problem); (b) that you  
will need to update your svn working copy via the "svn update"  
command rather than "sudo port sync"; (c) you can't use this to  
automatically update the MacPorts base code (though it's not that  
much more difficult); and (d) you'll use more space than otherwise  
necessary, especially if you switch between using svn checkout and  
using port sync.

I hope that this hasn't confused you.  Feel free to ask any more  
questions you may have.

Kind regards,


Maun Suang

[1] http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports

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