RE: Apt & Firewall variable

[Jon Hughes <jhughes@sccme.com>]

Three responses in thirty minutes....and my friends say Linux has no
support.

Thanks all! :b


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	^chewie [mailto:chewie@guinness.urw.org]
		Sent:	Thursday, September 02, 1999 11:09 AM
		To:	Debian User's List
		Subject:	RE: Apt & Firewall variable

		From: Jon Hughes <jhughes@sccme.com>

		"I'm reading a Debian Installation & Guide to use book and
it states
		that I can put in a variable to let apt know that you have a
		firewall/proxy between you and the outside world.

		"The variable (# export http_proxy=http://gateway:1234/) is
to be
		typed into the command line...but is there a file where I
can put that
		into so I don't have to type it whenever I want to apt-get
something?"

		Well, there are a couple places.  If you'd like the
http_proxy
		environment variable to apply to your execution of Apt
alone, then you
		can rename apt-get to apt-get.real and write a wrapper
script called
		"apt-get".

		The script would look something like this:

		#!/bin/sh
	
######################################################################
		## Apt-get wrapper script: to set environment variables
before
		## executing apt-get.
		## Last update: xxxx/xx/xx

		# Set proxy env. var.
		HTTP_PROXY="http://my.proxy:<port>" ; export HTTP_PROXY

		# Call apt-get.real and pass any parameters
		/usr/bin/apt-get.real $@

		## End script

		If you want the environment variable to apply to your login
shell, and
		therefore all programs, put the HTTP_PROXY line in your
		.bash_profile.  Case is important, so if the variable is
supposed to
		be "http_proxy", use that.

		Later!

		    ^chewie

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