How do I install behind a firewall/proxy? [solved]

publius · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 13

So I 'd like to give portage for Mac OS X a whirl on my PowerMac at work. However they have an exceptionally restrictive firewall and basically all I have is http access via a proxy server.

I download and install via the dmg, but I can't do the initial emerge --sync. Nor can I do emerge-webrsync as I dont have wget.

Any ideas?

One idea I had was to ssh home (they do allow ssh via a proxy) and forward a local port to the gentoo rysnc port. Would this work? How do I tell emerge to use a different rsync host/port?

amiatrome · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:05 pm Post subject:

Try this.

publius · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 13

That doesn't help. If I am not mistaken emerge --sync uses rsync not http.

Robu · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 24 Location: Italy

publius: Change the /etc/make.conf file to use curl instead of wget and add in the FETCHCOMMAND line the option to use the proxy.

publius · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 13

Thanks for the help Robu! Alas, it still does not work...

I put '--proxy myfunkyproxy:8080' in those two lines in make.conf. Note I checked that they are not commented out and /usr/bin/curl is there. But I still get:

/usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge-webrsync: line 63: wget: command not found

a bunch of times when I emerge-webrsync. And sure enough wget is hardcoded in there on that line.

I think we are on the right track. This is the very first emerge sync (emerge-webrsync) on the machine. Has there been an update to the emerge-webrsync script since the installer was made?

Or I could try to just edit the script directly to use curl. But I'm off for the weekend, so it will have to wait till Monday.

servobf · Apprentice Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 160

This site has a program SimpleWget that's a cocoa wrapper for wget. If you poke arround inside the program (just the .app folder) you'll find a copy of the actuall wget. If you copy that file to somewhere in your path, you can use it on the command line.

[url]
http://www.cosmos.ne.jp/~kaz6120/downloads/jam_stuff/index.pl?id=simplewget_e[/url]

Michael

publius · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 13

Thanks for all the help everyone. I have a working solution now...

First, I gave up on emerge-webrsync... Even using wget, it has trouble with other commands, e.g. '-d' is an invalid option on the OSX 'date' command.

Instead, I set SYNC in make.conf to 'rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage'. Whenever I want to do a 'emerge --sync', I first ssh home and map a local port to the rsync.gentoo.org. 'ssh publius@home.com -L 873:rsync.gentoo.org:873' It actually goes through a proxy here at work and I ofcourse have to be root to map a privledged port. But then emerge --sync works like normal.

I also use the modified FETCHCOMMAND and RESUMECOMMAND with the http proxy option that Robu suggested. This allows the regular emerge package downloads to work.

It's not ideal, but it works.

Robu · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 24 Location: Italy

@publius: I am happy that you solved. I was out of work till today so sorry for not reply to you soon.
Yes you're right, I did'nt remember that version of emerge-webrsync has trouble with OSX date.
Solution: edit emerge-webrsync to use curl instead of wget, then comment the lines to calculate the most recent snapshot and insert the full name of the portage snapshot with the date of one day earlyer (the format is like the following: portage-20041028.tar.bz2 . With this you should be able to donwload the snapshot and upgrade the system and the portage. The new version of emerge-webrsync then is ok and you could use it without pbms.
Robu