Bug#248255: marked as done (apt should use apt.conf proxy settings when getting external software)
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From: Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com>
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Subject: apt should use apt.conf proxy settings when getting external software
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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
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From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: Niklas Morberg <niklas.morberg@axis.com>, 248255-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#248255: apt should use apt.conf proxy settings when getting external software
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On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 07:55:01AM +0200, Niklas Morberg wrote:
> 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.
This is not a workaround; it is the correct solution. The settings in
apt.conf apply only to apt. http_proxy will be honored both by apt, and by
many other programs. So, if the proxy is required in order for you to
access external URLs, you should be setting http_proxy.
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- mdz
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