Thanks, Josh and Nox, for your replies. The problem is I have to use socks and I don't think there's an env variable that MacPorts honors for that. macports.conf has all other proxy settings, but not socks..
--- On Tue, 12/22/09, nox <[email protected]> wrote: > From: nox <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: socks proxy > To: "Joshua Root" <[email protected]> > Cc: "leelavati narlikar" <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 5:27 PM > Doesn't MacPorts just honor the > http_proxy environment variable? > > Le 22 déc. 2009 à 07:28, Joshua Root a écrit : > > > On 2009-12-22 16:16 , leelavati narlikar wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm behind a firewall but manage to access the > internet via a socks proxy. Since I can't use rsync either, > I downloaded the ports tarball directly. I'm trying to > install ports now, but the fetching naturally fails. I > assume it uses curl? How can I ensure that curl uses socks? > Am new to macports so any help will be more than welcome. > > > > MacPorts should pick up your proxy settings from > System Preferences, or > > failing that, you can configure them in macports.conf > (which is well > > commented). > > > > - Josh > > _______________________________________________ > > macports-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users > > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
