On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Dennis Glatting wrote:
I have a requirement where I need to archive ports used across twenty hosts
for a year or more. I've decided to do this using Squid and to take advantage
of Squid's cache when updating common ports across those hosts.
(BTW, at another site I used rsync to sync /usr/ports/distfiles across the
hosts to a local master site then specified _MASTER_SITES_DEFAULT in
make.conf to a FTP server on the local site. That method works when the port
is previously cached however if the file isn't in the cache and I
simultaneously install the port across ten hosts, the port is fetched ten
times. Sigh.)
I have a Squid proxy installed that isn't meant for every-day/every-user use
and requires authentication. (Users either go through another Squid proxy or
direct.) The special Squid proxy works. No surprise there. Authentication
works. No surprise there.
What I need is a method to embed into make.conf a proxy specification for
fetch. Setting the environment variable HTTP_PROXY from the login shell /is
not/ preferred because the account is used by different administrators, I
don't what the special proxy accidentally polluted with non-port stuff, and
it would only create confusion.
Setting http_proxy in make.conf does not work. .netrc doesn't appear to be a
viable method (if it did, I could specify FETCH_ARGS in make.conf).
I forgot to mention that I also thought about redefining SHELL in
make.conf to a small program that sets HTTP_PROXY in the environment then
execs the desired target but I felt that approach was fraught with peril.
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