using an http proxy?

[Rainer Müller]

Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> 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.

According to ticket #13158 [1], you have to specify your proxy on the 
command line if using sudo, as it normally unsets environment variables:

$ sudo env http_proxy='foobar' port fetch $portname

This is still missing from the HOWTO section in the wiki [2], but 
requested. Any volunteers? :-)

> 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.

Unfortunately if rsync is unavailable, there is no other way of updating 
base than downloading sources and compiling manually. But the ports tree 
can be synced with svn over HTTP/HTTPS.

Rainer

[1] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13158
[2] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/howto/