Subject: Re: pkg_add + wget?
To: Kamil Shakirov <kamils80@gmail.com>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/21/2005 12:28:04
On 2005.07.21 15:26:28 +0000, Kamil Shakirov wrote:
 | 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! ;-)

Hmm, I'm sorry I didn't tested this first. This will only work when building
packages from source, not with pkg_add(1).

		-- Rui Paulo