On Sunday 29 May 2005 22:49, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Sunday 29 May 2005 17:52, Brian Bruns wrote: > > On Sunday, May 29, 2005 4:58 PM [EST], Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > The epic4 and epic5 ports on FreeBSD have an option to include > > > in SOCKS5 support. The licensing for SOCKS5 does not allow > > > binary download. One cannot automagically download the sources > > > either. You have to fill out a web-based registration, download > > > the tarball and then manually put it into the > > > /usr/ports/distfiles on your FreeBSD machine. There are other > > > ports that get treated similar to this situation. The problem > > > is that I can no longer find a place to download the SOCKS5 > > > sources from legitimately. > > > > > > My question is this: Do I need to move heaven and earth to get > > > SOCKS5 working again, or can I simply remove the option from > > > the port? > > > > Or an alternative would be to use another SOCKS5 library: > > > > http://antinat.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Such as antinat. Check FreshMeat, theres probably half a dozen > > library implementations available. I think Dante might have > > header/library support too. > > What direction you want to go is up to you guys. I briefly looked > at antimat and it's GPL'd as well as not requiring you to > 'register' or whatever to download the sources. Antimat doesn't > have a FreeBSD port so it would take a bit of doing to make it go. > (which I am perfectly fine with)
I've gone ahead and (with the help of a couple people) made /usr/ports/net/socks5 work on FreeBSD. I'll do some testing the beginning of next week to make sure it integrates with Epic properly. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@epicsol.org http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list
