Bug#46145: apt: apt relies on env vars to specify proxies

[Joost Kooij <joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com>]

Hi,

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.

AFAIK apt does actually support setting proxies in a config file.  My
current apt version is 0.3.13, but it has supported this since, uhhm, I
don't even remember. 

Check out /usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf.gz for a list of all the
available settings (but don't use it integrally, as some colleague of mine
did, and who found his /usr remounted ro every time he ran apt.  That is
especially fun when you insist on putting homes in /usr/home...)

Cheers,


Joost

This is my /etc/apt/apt.conf:

---cut---
APT {
	Architecture "i386";

	Get {
		No-Cache "true";
		No-Store "true";
		Max-Age "3600";
		Assume-Yes "true";
		Fix-Broken "true";
	}; 
};

Acquire {
	Queue-Mode "host";

	Retries "3";

	http {
		No-Cache "true";
		No-Store "true";
		Max-Age "3600";
		Proxy "http://www-proxy.mpn.cp.philips.com:8080";;
	};

};

// Pre-configure all packages before they are installed.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"dpkg-preconfig --apt";};

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