using an http proxy?

[William Siegrist]

The svn method of syncing uses port 80.

-Bill



On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Noah Leaman wrote:
> Is it possible to have an officially supported rsync service that
> listens on port 80 for people like us who cannot get standard rsync
> ports opened up on the firewall? Is there a technical reason why I
> can't be done or is it a resource issue?
>
> --  
> Noah
>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>
>> 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/
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William Siegrist
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