setting a default for non-existent property

[Ben Abbott]

On May 7, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

>
> On May 7, 2009, at 6:46 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
>> On  7-May-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>
>> | hmmm ... new problem :-(
>> |
>> | hg pull http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave
>> | abort: error: nonnumeric port: ''
>>
>> Is this still happening?  I see the following:
>>
>> segfault:899> hg pull
>> pulling from ssh://hg.sv.gnu.org/octave
>> searching for changes
>> no changes found
>>
>> jwe
>
> yeah, it's still happening for me.

Ok, I found the problem. I'd set up my package manager to work through  
my company's proxy which it can't when I'm not at work :-(

Ben