using an http proxy?

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Daniel Lord wrote:
> My place of employment has everything locked down except for port 80  
> so I have to use an http proxy.
> I can use curl from the command line with the proxy option so I know  
> it should work for Macports, but a web search and the reading of the  
> Macport Wiki, FAQ and other docs has not shown that Macports can  
> take advantage of the proxy option for libCURL or the curl command.
> I have used the libCURL library using the libCURL proxy facility to  
> fetch http data with C++, so I know the proxy can work through both  
> the library and the command.
>
> I suppose I could look around in the source and hack it to use a  
> proxy option is an arbitrarily named (by me) proxy file exists and  
> using the proxy for the curl command invocation. But then it would  
> break on Macports updates.
>
> Is there an 'official' way to do this? One that should hold up  
> through Macport updates?
>

If you set the standard curl proxy environment variables (http_proxy,  
FTP_PROXY, etc; see 'man curl'), this should get fetching of sources  
to work through the proxy.

However, for selfupdate, which uses rsync, there isn't a way to use  
the proxy.  I think in this case you have to use a subversion-based  
repository instead.  For this you need to checkout MacPorts[1], then  
updated your ${prefix}/etc/macports/sources.conf to point to the  
location of the dports directory instead of the rsync:// line.

Bryan

[1] - http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/wiki/GetMacPortsSource


> Daniel LOrd