I'm certainly familiar with the problem, in the end I set up my own rsync server to redistribute inside our firewall (on a machine with access through it). It is possible to specify a port for rsync as part of the URL, so if someone could run an rsync server on port 80 or 443, that may work for people with only web access (depending on how your proxy server handles it). I know I failed to get our proxy server to handle the rsync connection on the normal port (873) when I last tried (not recently).
-- Viv On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > There has been ongoing work with a mechanism by which Fink can be > updated via HTTP directly, via a tarball snapshot of the package > descriptions. I'm not sure if it's ready for testing yet. > > An option (clunky) is to download package descriptions (.info and .patch > files) via the web interface: > > http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/fink/dists/10.4/ > > and put them where they'd normally go (i.e the directory tree you see > when running when running > > fink dumpinfo -finfofile <packagename> > > ) > > > On 12/29/09 2:24 AM, Ian Schorr wrote: >> I asked the same a few months ago - at the time there didn't seem to >> be a way. Most people seemed puzzled about the problem, let alone a >> viable solution (only things really offered were setting up SSL >> tunnels to bypass the firewall/content filter causing your problem). >> >> On 29/12/2009, at 5:52 PM, Felix Frolow <mbfro...@post.tau.ac.il> wrote: >> >>> Is there a mechanism of convenient software installation and >>> upgrade like fink which is bypass rsync or cvs >>> for people who work in the places where paranoia rules >>> I have to help someone in the other institution >>> >>> Dr Felix Frolow >>> Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology >>> Department of Molecular Microbiology >>> and Biotechnology >>> Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel >>> >>> Acta Crystallographica D, co-editor >>> >>> e-mail: mbfro...@post.tau.ac.il >>> Tel: ++972 3640 8723 >>> Fax: ++972 3640 9407 >>> Cellular: ++972 547 459 608 >>> >>> >>> --- >>> --- >>> --- > > > - -- > Alexander Hansen > Fink User Liaison > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAks6SMMACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+7agCdGGEczYh+i8/Si2r8bD3nemYB > T2IAoI5N3dE2MPfblMoN+OkG8CI0V4R8 > =9L4S > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > ________________________________________________ Dr Viv Kendon http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv tel: +44 113 343 4864 Physics and Astronomy Quantum Information Group University of Leeds ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
