Re: Prefer ipv4 Download (FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS ignored?)

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

* On 2023-11-27 at 11:12 GMT, Ede Wolf wrote:

> My /etc/mk.conf reads:
>
> .if defined(BSD_PKG_MK)
> CFLAGS+= -mcpu=21164a
> FETCH_USING= ftp
> FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS= -4
> ...
> .endif
>
> However, FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS seems to be ignored. I've also aliased ftp 
> to ftp -4 in the root/.profile, but that did not help either.

FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS is not a user-settable variable.  It is explicitly 
overridden in mk/fetch/fetch.mk which is why your mk.conf is having no 
effect.

The variable you want to set is FETCH_USE_IPV4_ONLY=yes.

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