On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Richard Rauch wrote:

> The one downside, if you are from behind your no-FTP firewall, is
> that pkgsrc gets the source "distfiles" for packages from whatever
> place the package indicates---often at an ftp:// address.

You can work around this by putting
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=	http://ftp.be.NetBSD.org/packages/distfiles/
in mk.conf(5).


dieter

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