Bug#46145: acknowledged by developer (apt: apt relies on env vars to specify proxies)

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

reopen 46145
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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

Unfortunately it doesn't work with the attached apt.conf, i.e., it still
tries to connect directly.
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APT {
	Acquire {
		http {
			Proxy "http://web-2.cse.unsw.edu.au:3128";;
		};
		ftp {
			Proxy "http://web-2.cse.unsw.edu.au:3128";;
		};
	};
};