Bug#87808: apt-get: ignores setting of Acquire:http:Proxy
On Feb 26, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Chris Lawrence wrote:
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> > I have the following setting in my apt.conf file:
>
> > Acquire:http:Proxy "http://192.168.1.1:3128";;
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> > however, apt-get seems to ignore it. Invoking apt with the following
> > environment, however, works fine:
>
> If you inspect the man pages, it will tell you that you need two colons,
> not one colon as the seperator.
D'oh... Ok, could we at least have a warning of improper syntax in
/etc/apt/apt.conf then :)
Chris
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