On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 23:03, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

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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? Mojca