Bug#46145: marked as done (apt: apt relies on env vars to specify proxies)
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Subject: apt: apt relies on env vars to specify proxies
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.12
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It seems that the only way to specify proxies is through environment variables.
This violates our policy (or at least its rationale) where environment variables
should be the only way of specifying configuration information for the simple
fact there is no easy way of setting it for all users.
So please come up with an alternative way of setting proxies, perhaps through
a new configuration file or an existing one.
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux hume 2.2.12 #3 Wed Sep 15 09:34:14 EST 1999 sparc unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.1-0pre1 The GNU stdc++ library
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Subject: Re: Bug#46145: apt: apt relies on env vars to specify proxies
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Herbert Xu wrote:
> So please come up with an alternative way of setting proxies, perhaps
> through a new configuration file or an existing one.
You mean like using the configuration file in /etc/apt/apt.conf that has a
whole complex wack of settings for proxies that is above and beyond what
you can set in the environment variables?!
Look in /usr/doc/apt/samples/apt.conf.gz for some samples
Jason
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