Re: pkg/40590: pkg_add hangs in ftpclose, usually after adding allthe dependencies and registering the final package

["Peter Kay" <peter%syllopsium.com@localhost>]

> From: "Joerg Sonnenberger" <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
> To: <joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost>; <gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost>; <pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>; 
> <peter%syllopsium.com@localhost>
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 2:35 PM
> Subject: Re: pkg/40590: pkg_add hangs in ftpclose, usually after adding 
> allthe dependencies and registering the final package
> (a) What do you mean with "ftpclose"?
Hi Joerg.

It hangs at : ftp> close

> (b) What version of pkg_install are you using?
# pkg_info -V
20081002

It's straight off 5.0RC1

> (c) What server are you using?
export 
PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$(uname -m)/5.0_2008Q4/All
(where uname -m is i386)

Yes, I know I'm running 5.0RC1 and  a set of binary packages which isn't 
entirely up to date (this is because the target machine is only a 233MHz 
pentium). I shouldn't have thought this would have affected the actual 
installation of packages, though

> (d) Is this behind some strange transparent FTP proxy?
Yes - it's using ftp-proxy on a NATed OpenBSD firewall. I presume this is 
the most likely cause for the problem - it's odd though, because standard 
FTP works, as does every other FTP program I've seen. Is this a supported 
environment?
> Joerg

PK