Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-23 Thread RW
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:05:51 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. Scott) wrote: [Jeffrey Goldberg] As an aside, I'd like to rant that there is no reason for ftp to exist anymore. Sure it is stateful in a way that HTTP isn't, but that isn't enough to justify its continued use. I have

Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-22 Thread Eric P. Scott
[Jeffrey Goldberg] As an aside, I'd like to rant that there is no reason for ftp to exist anymore. Sure it is stateful in a way that HTTP isn't, but that isn't enough to justify its continued use. I have very good connectivity to several FTP-only mirror sites, and relatively poor

Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
I asked how to pass the -p argument to fetch when doing a port upgrade. Answers here, and further digging confirm that the presuppositions behind my question were wrong. First of all, the problem that I was having had nothing to do with active vs passive FTP. I had butchered all FTP

Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-21 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/03/21 14:29, Jeffrey Goldberg seems to have typed: Rant As an aside, I'd like to rant that there is no reason for ftp to exist anymore. Sure it is stateful in a way that HTTP isn't, but that isn't enough to justify its continued use. Qualification Of course having

Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:29:03PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Rant As far as I can tell this and many other configuration options are not documented anywhere outside of the .mk files themselves. Is that really how things should be? /Rant Let me tell you a totally awesome secret:

Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:45:39 -0800 Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007/03/21 14:29, Jeffrey Goldberg seems to have typed: Rant As an aside, I'd like to rant that there is no reason for ftp to exist anymore. Sure it is stateful in a way that HTTP isn't, but that isn't

Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 21, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:29:03PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Rant As far as I can tell this and many other configuration options are not documented anywhere outside of the .mk files themselves. Is that really how things should be?

Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp

2007-03-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:52:51PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Mar 21, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:29:03PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Rant As far as I can tell this and many other configuration options are not documented anywhere