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#1 2012-09-21 04:57:48
- originalsurfmex
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behind firewall, need an alternative to abs or a way to change ports
I've read just about everything regarding not being able to run abs. I am behind a dorm firewall, I tried fixing my resolv.conf and also tried 'abs -t'. Running ABS fails every time.
Is there a manual way to get what ABS pulls in? Or perhaps a way to run it on a port that isn't blocked by my firewall?
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#2 2012-09-21 05:26:27
- ngoonee
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Re: behind firewall, need an alternative to abs or a way to change ports
Purpose of abs, for you?
Single PKGBUILDs you can just use wget (or use something like pbget to help).
To mirror the whole PKGBUILD structure... I think there was a git mirror of abs you could use.
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#3 2012-09-21 10:43:10
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Re: behind firewall, need an alternative to abs or a way to change ports
I enjoy the ports-like to keep more and more packages up to date that I build from source. Things like dwm for instance. I can see that abs uses rsyc to pull in the tree...is there a way to modify that line or a command that allows me to pull in the tree into the same place that abs does?
If its git - I suppose I would git clone the tree right? I just don't want to miss doing something that abs does when it pulls the data via rsync.
Once i have the PKGBUILD structure I'd also like to keep maintaining it up to date like ABS does.
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#4 2012-09-22 00:32:23
- ngoonee
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Re: behind firewall, need an alternative to abs or a way to change ports
I enjoy the ports-like to keep more and more packages up to date that I build from source. Things like dwm for instance. I can see that abs uses rsyc to pull in the tree...is there a way to modify that line or a command that allows me to pull in the tree into the same place that abs does?
Read the source, and patches welcome. rsync can't be run behind a firewall unless you have an intervening server under your control to do port forwarding for you. I've tried (am also stuck behind a non-rsyncable firewall).
If its git - I suppose I would git clone the tree right? I just don't want to miss doing something that abs does when it pulls the data via rsync.
Once i have the PKGBUILD structure I'd also like to keep maintaining it up to date like ABS does.
Do your homework, you've obviously not even started looking for this.
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