Subject: Re: pkg_add + wget?
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
From: Kamil Shakirov <kamils80@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/21/2005 15:26:28
Hello, Rui
Rui Paulo wrote:
> | I tried to install some binary packages being behind proxy but I didn't
> | succeed. I know about ftp_proxy and http_proxy and set them properly
> | but couldn't make the ftp client work for me. But wget works fine. Is
> | there any way to make pkg_add work with wget? Thanks in advance!
>
> Did you tried to fetch some other file with ftp(1) ? Does it work ?
Sure, I did ;) It didn't work either.
> Anyway, for using wget, set the following variables in /etc/mk.conf:
> FETCH_CMD=wget
> FETCH_RESUME_ARGS=-c
> FETCH_OUTPUT_ARGS=-O
>
> Hope this helps.
Great! I will try this. Thanks for this trick! ;-)