portdowngrade & proxy

[Kryol]

Hi,

Is it possible to use portdowngrade through proxy?

Or may be another possibility exists for ports downgrading behind proxy.

Thanks,
Kryol

 

[SirDice]

It should respect HTTP_PROXY. Similar to the other tools.

 

[Kryol]

Unfortunately it does not work for portdowngrade

 

[kpa]

I believe ports-mgmt/portdowngrade uses cvs(1) for fetching the older versions of ports. You'll have to figure out how to tell cvs(1) to connect trough a proxy.

 

[SirDice]

If you have a machine on the internet you can reach with ssh(1) you can use port forwarding to 'proxy' cvs(1):
$ ssh -L5999:cvsup.freebsd.org:5999 [email]me@some.machin[/email]e
Then configure portdowngrade to use localhost as the CVS host.

 

[kpa]

Anonymous CVS access to the ports tree will go away eventually, the ports-mgmt/portdowngrade port would need an update to support devel/subversion.

 

[Kryol]

Anonymous CVS access to the ports tree will go away eventually, the ports-mgmt/portdowngrade port would need an update to support devel/subversion.

How to do this?

 

[SirDice]

The port itself will need to be updated by it's maintainer.