Re: anyone seeing this?

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 14, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> This morning I encountered an error when I attempted to update my  
> copy of jwe's archive.
>
>         hg pull http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
>         pulling from http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
>         abort: error: nonnumeric port: ''
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> Ben

I found my problem. I had temporarily configured my Fink package  
manager to navigate past my employers proxy.

When home I edit FInk's configuration info to remove the http proxy  
info, and when at work edit the configuration to insert the proxy  
info. Surprisingly Fink appears to ignore the environment variables,  
but sets the http_proxy environment variable anyway (perhaps some  
other utility uses it).

Once I clear the environment variable ("export http_proxy=") all  
worked as normal.

Ben