Bug#248255: apt should use apt.conf proxy settings when getting external software
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.24
Severity: minor
Tags: sid
When downloading a package that depends on fetching external URI:s (e.g.
flashplugin-nonfree), apt does not use the Acquire::http variable. The
result is that installing such a package will not work, since the
connection will time out.
A workaround is to set the http_proxy environment variable for root to a
proper value.
One way to fix this is to either mention this in the documentation, or have
apt-get and relatives use the Acquire::http variable for these
operations as well.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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