No ports without ftp ?

[Claudiu Bichir]

Hello guys ! I'm on a LAN which has the ftp port blocked. Is there any chance for me to install aplications from ports ?
Thank you !


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[James Alexander Cook]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 09:41:42AM -0800, Claudiu Bichir wrote:

> Hello guys ! I'm on a LAN which has the ftp port blocked. Is there any chance for me to install aplications from ports ?
> Thank you !
>
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$ cd /usr/ports/www/zope
$ make
=> Zope-2.7.4-0.tgz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/zope.
=> Attempting to fetch from [url]http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.4/[/url].
^C
$

Generally, when make tries to fetch a file, it will tell you where that file
should end up, and where it's getting it from.

If you manually download
[url]http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.4/Zope-2.7.4-0.tgz[/url] to
/usr/ports/distfiles/zope from somewhere with an unblocked connection, then
make will verify that the file has the correct checksum, and if so, won't try
to fetch it since it's already there.

(This is a bad example, since this port uses http anyway... but you get the
idea.)

- James Cook
[email]james.cook@utoronto.ca[/email]