[Piuparts-devel] Bug#632046: Bug#632046: piuparts: Use HTTP_PROXY

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Mon Jul 4 14:06:41 UTC 2011


Hi Scott,

thanks for your bug report with patch. If you want to be even more awesome 
than you already are, you could include debian/changelog entries in your 
patches too :-)

On Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2011, Scott Schaefer wrote:
> Attached patch causes piuparts to add appropriate line to apt.conf in
> chroot to cause apt to use current HTTP_PROXY variable from OS
> environment.

it also seems to contain unwanted noise about force-confdef :/
 
> It PROBABLY should also read current apt config and duplicate any
> Acquire::http::proxy value from there.  However, there are at least three
> issues with that:

I think the ability to specify the proxy like this is well sufficient. If a 
user wants to configure apt further, she can always do this via a custom 
script :-)


cheers,
	Holger





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