Re: Minimals Setup witout rsync?

From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Johannes Graumann <johannes_graumann@web.de>
Subject: Re: Minimals Setup witout rsync?
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:13:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912071213.59598.alan.braslau@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hfij4d$g8a$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Monday 07 December 2009 10:49:45 Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Timestamp:
> 	2009-05-11 13:30
> Ouch.
> 
> Can that be synchronized with the rsync-able repository?
> 
> Thanks, Joh
> 
> Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> > Am 04.12.2009 um 14:27 schrieb Johannes Graumann:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> How would one install the minimals when sitting behind a restrictive
> >> firewall not allowing rsyncing with the outside world?
> >
> > http://pragma-ade.com/download-4.htm
> >
> > Wolfgang

See also attached mail.

If you can connect to a machine on the outside world
that has nc and itself allows rsync.

Alan

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From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: ConTeXt list <context@lists.launchpad.net>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt minimals behind (rsync) firewall
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:31:04 +0200
Message-ID: <200907232331.04758.alan.braslau@cea.fr>

On Thursday 23 July 2009 21:40:54 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 23:03, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> >>> I am currently behind a firewall that does not allow rsync://
> >>> connections, so ./first-setup.sh fails.
> >>> However, ssh connections are allowed.
> >>> I do not (currently) know enough about rsync
> >>> (and the conTeXt scripts) to see how to get around this.
> >
> > I re-read the rsync documentation and found a solution:
> >
> > export RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG='ssh proxyhost nc %H 873'
> > ./first-setup.sh
> >
> > where proxyhost is replaced by the name of my laboratory gateway machine
> > that is configured to allow rsync (port 873) connections.
> >
> > The other solutions (-e ssh) require having a login on contextgarden.net.
> > So, now I can rsync with the minimals on the garden.
>
> Alan,
>
> thanks a lot for figuring that out. This should be documented on Wiki
> or in first-setup.sh.
>
> Just a question: what kind of server exactly does that "proxyhost" need to
> be?

The "proxyhost" can be any machine outside of the ssh firewall that
1) has "nc" (netcat)
2) allows a connection to port 873 (rsync)

Alan

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