fetch fails, ftp works question

[Nelis Lamprecht]

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 14:25, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the feeling this is in some FAQ, but I don't understand it.
> 
> I have a ftp server on which I have the distfiles and I'm using it as
> MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=ftp://user:pass@host/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR+DIST_SUBDIR/}
> 
> It usually work ok on make fetch. But sometimes it doesn't, e.g.
> fetch ftp://user:pass@host/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/MailScanner-4.25-14.tar.gz
> fetch: ftp://user:pass@host/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/MailScanner-4.25-14.tar.gz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> 
> However the following works:
> ftp ftp://user:pass@host/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/MailScanner-4.25-14.tar.gz
> 
> Can somebody enlighten me ?

Try using the FTP_LOGIN and FTP_PASSWORD variables. If all else fails
you can try the FETCH_CMD variable in /etc/make.conf and change it to
use ftp, wget etc. Oh, not sure if that was a typo above but it should
be:
 MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?=
ftp://user:pass@host/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/

Regards,
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Nelis Lamprecht
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