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

[Scott Schaefer]

On 07/04/2011 10:06 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> 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 :-)
>    

Um ... OK.  I will have to learn how to do that.  I will add to my 
"Learn About ..." list :-)
> 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 :/
>
>    

I didn't see that in my (limited) testing.  I will re-test (after mod 
described below) and look specifically for anything about confdef.  In 
meantime, do you recall precisely what it reports ?
>> 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 :-)
>
>    

I already found 'apt-config' (which addresses all three of my 
"issues").  I have it on my list to execute it and pull any 
Acquire::Proxy value from there if HTTP_PROXY is not in os.environ.  So 
I'll send revised patch in next 3-4 days.
> cheers,
> 	Holger
>