Re: pkg/47054 (benchmarks/super_pi: source unfetchable and restricted)

[John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>]

On 10/12/2012 13:50, Robert Elz wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR pkg/47054; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Robert Elz<kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
>   Looks suspiciously like NAT death&  EPSV - an FTP server&  client that
>   understand (and use) EPSV (or EPRT) separated by a NAT that has no
>   idea what those are about (though as it is now close to 15 years since
>   they were added, such a thing is really inexcusable - but they certainly
>   exist).
>
>   You could try disabling EPSV in the client, and see if that helps.
>
>   Otherwise, try a tcpdump of the connection, and see what is really
>   happening.


If I use filezilla in passive mode, I can connect.
I noted that ftp://pi.super-computing.org/Linux/ is a softlink to 
ftp://pi.super-computing.org/pub/exec_Linux/ but changing MASTER_SITES 
to that doesn't allow the package to fetch.  It still times out.

The client here (I think) is "fetch" which is what pkgsrc dictates.
I'm wondering if there are any settings like passive that can be put 
into the makefile that could help fetch succeed.

John