Bug#365880: apt-get fails with $http_proxy env var set correctly

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:43:07PM +0530, Toufeeq Hussain wrote:
> Subject: apt-get update fails even when $http_proxy env var is set.
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.43.3
> Severity: normal

Thanks for your bugreport.

> After upgrading the apt package in unstable, an apt-get update of my
> existing repositories failed even after I had the http_proxy
> environment variable set correctly.
> 
> However, after creating a /etc/apt/apt.conf file with the following line,
> Acquire::http::Proxy "http://user:pass@10.0.0.1:80";;; (example)
> apt-get seems to work fine.

I can't reproduce this behaviour here, what did your http_proxy
environment variable look like? 

Cheers,
 Michael 
 

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