On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 08:21:35 +0000, Don McKenzie Paul
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>I have had my fink configuration working very well from work for a
>long time. I recently had a broadband internet connection installed
>at home and am using an airport station to connect to my portable. I
>can no longer get curl to download any fink packages, although
>finkupdate seems to work. I assume this is because the Airport
>station works as some kind of firewall. I have tried to use fink
>configure to account for this but setting the proxy to none but that
>does not work. I was able to downlaod the packages manually and
>install them. Has anyone used this configuration or have any advice
>on how to get this setup working with fink.
>
Try using wget instead of curl, by adding this line to /sw/etc/fink.cnf:
DownloadMethod: wget
I have no idea why wget would work better than curl, but I've had
much better results downloading files through fink using wget than
curl. Then again, some things seem to work better with curl, so I
find myself commenting out that line sometimes, then putting it back
later.
Then again, as Sebastian Flothow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pointed out,
it may be a problem with active vs. passive FTP. My fink.cnf now
contains the line:
ProxyPassiveFTP: true
and my wget line is commented out. I usually leave myself notes
about changes like this, but I don't see any, which probably means I
was desparately hacking random combinations of settings until
something worked but never went back and documented the experience.
So, first try ProxyPassiveFTP and if that still doesn't work try the
DownloadMethod setting.
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