Re: MacPorts from behind proxy servers & fetching the file directly

2018-03-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 16 March 2018 at 17:42, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2018-03-16 12:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Umesh was only able to work on MacPorts because he was at home during summer. > > That sounds really drastic, but I do not think it is in reality. There > are the alternatives for syncing the ports tre

Re: MacPorts from behind proxy servers & fetching the file directly

2018-03-16 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Mar 16, 2018, at 11:28 AM, db wrote: > On 16 Mar 2018, at 16:03, "Daniel J. Luke" wrote: >> portfiles could in theory attempt to connect to any port, so a comprehensive >> list like you're asking for is probably not possible to create. > > But there could be one in practice, as there is infr

Re: MacPorts from behind proxy servers & fetching the file directly

2018-03-16 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2018-03-16 12:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > While discussing GSOC with Umesh, he repeated what we already > discussed during the meeting. Students in campuses (including the one > where he is studying and from which roughly 40 students participate in > GSOC each year) might be behind proxies and m

Re: MacPorts from behind proxy servers & fetching the file directly

2018-03-16 Thread db
On 16 Mar 2018, at 16:03, "Daniel J. Luke" wrote: > portfiles could in theory attempt to connect to any port, so a comprehensive > list like you're asking for is probably not possible to create. But there could be one in practice, as there is infrastructure building all ports. Ever upgraded out

Re: MacPorts from behind proxy servers & fetching the file directly

2018-03-16 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Mar 16, 2018, at 8:45 AM, db wrote: > Is there any list of ports used for installing base and **any other** port? portfiles could in theory attempt to connect to any port, so a comprehensive list like you're asking for is probably not possible to create. It might be worthwhile to look at swi

Re: MacPorts from behind proxy servers & fetching the file directly

2018-03-16 Thread db
On 16 Mar 2018, at 12:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > While discussing GSOC with Umesh, he repeated what we already > discussed during the meeting. Students in campuses (including the one > where he is studying and from which roughly 40 students participate in > GSOC each year) might be behind proxies