Re: updating through a proxy

1998-05-23 Thread Greg Norris
Unfortunately, that didn't work. Although dpkg-http doesn't depend on libc6 iteslf, some of the items which it did depend upon eventually led back there. What I ended up doing was downloading the package-files manually, and using "dftp select" to generate a list of updated packages. I then downl

Re: updating through a proxy

1998-05-18 Thread Greg Norris
I'll certainly take a look at both of them, and I'll post the results back to the list. Thanx! >dpkg-http (in hamm) can use a web proxy, if that's an option. I haven't > installed it on a bo system, but can't think of any reason it wouldn't work. > I've suggested it to a few people in simil

Re: updating through a proxy

1998-05-18 Thread Drake Diedrich
On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 07:14:37PM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > I've got a bo (installed from a 1.3.1r6 CD) machine at work, and am > looking for a good way to update it via FTP. The problem I have is > that all FTP connections at our site have to go through a proxy (connect > with the userid "p

updating through a proxy

1998-05-18 Thread Greg Norris
I've got a bo (installed from a 1.3.1r6 CD) machine at work, and am looking for a good way to update it via FTP. The problem I have is that all FTP connections at our site have to go through a proxy (connect with the userid "proxyftp", use the command "quote site some.site.name" to connect to th