socks proxy

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Dec 22 17:02:51 PST 2009


As the comments in macports.conf say:

# Precedence is: env, macports.conf, System Preferences

On 2009-12-23 11:50 , nox wrote:
> Yeah I know that. I'm just saying that I think it does JUST that, and do not ever use the system-wide proxy settings.
> 
> Le 23 déc. 2009 à 00:22, Joshua Root a écrit :
> 
>> Yes, but the default sudoers in 10.5+ will clear it.
>>
>> On 2009-12-22 22:57 , nox wrote:
>>> Doesn't MacPorts just honor the http_proxy environment variable?
>>>
>>> Le 22 déc. 2009 à 07:28, Joshua Root a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On 2009-12-22 16:16 , leelavati narlikar wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm behind a firewall but manage to access the internet via a socks proxy. Since I can't use rsync either, I downloaded the ports tarball directly. I'm trying to install ports now, but the fetching naturally fails. I assume it uses curl? How can I ensure that curl uses socks? Am new to macports so any help will be more than welcome. 
>>>>
>>>> MacPorts should pick up your proxy settings from System Preferences, or
>>>> failing that, you can configure them in macports.conf (which is well
>>>> commented).
>>>>
>>>> - Josh



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