On 12 Jul 2012, at 17:23, Kaya Saman wrote:

> How does one get round this issue as my superiors are telling me that
> opening up FTP is a security risk and therefor don't want to proceed?
> 
> 
> I would like to use ports specifically and not the pkg_add tool to get 
> software.
> 
> 
> Can anyone sugget anything?

The usual solution appears to be to add

   MASTER_SORT_REGEX = ^http

to your /etc/make.conf file

see

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-January/226342.html

- Mark

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