Re: Apt sources.list
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, James Blackwell wrote:
> What would you think about having a line in sources.list such as:
>
> proxy http://www.theproxy.com/3128 ?
>
> I know that it's possible to set an environment variable prior to running
> apt (http_proxy), but for reasons such as su, I thought having an entry in
> sources.list may be more convienant.
>
> Would you mind if I made a patch and sent it in? I haven't written it yet,
> but I would be more than willin to do so.
The unreleased experimental APT (v3) allows you to set this in a
configuration file,
echo "acquire::http::proxy \"http://../\";"; >> /etc/apt.conf
Jason
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