On Tuesday 13 February 2001 05:43, Mike McNally wrote:
> Well, that didn't work. I presume you meant put it in apt.conf? I did
> that, and I tried the http line changing the sources.list acordingly.
> Then, or actually first, I referred to the man apt.conf and the
> apt/examples/\ configure-index wherein it was stated that the line should
> look like this: ftp::Proxy "ftp://192.168.1.1:8080";;
>
> or
>
> ftp
> {
> Proxy "ftp://192.168.1.1:8080";;
> }
>
> or
>
No
Just at a bash prompt
export HTTP_PROXY=??
> similar lines without the port.
> And believe me I've tried them all. It doesn not change the error msg.
> which is still...
> could not connect to localhost 8080 (127.0.0.1) connect 111 (connection
> refused)\ [IP: 127.0.0.1 8080]
>
> So if I'm putting the right lines in the apt.conf to tell it to make it's
> ftp conn on 192.168.1.1:8080 then apparently it isn't ready the apt.conf
> file or something is overriding it. This is a potato system on a pentium
> 120.
>
> On Sun 11 Feb 2001, Earl F Hampton wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 February 2001 08:29, Mike McNally wrote:
> >
> > HTTP_PROXY=192.168.1.1:8080 or
> > FTP_PROXY=192.168.1.1:port
> >
> > > I have a poor understanding of a firewall I setup with pmfirewall, but
> > > my guess here is that I need to tell apt that it should think of this
> > > box as 192.168.1.1 instead of 127.0.0.1. I checked my ipchains rules
> > > and there is a rule to allow connections on port 8080, but not for
> > > 127.0.0.1.
> > >
> > > apt.conf has just one line in it
> > >
> > > DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
> > >
> > >
> > > How would I tell apt what this pc's ip
> > > number is since it apparently isn't checking the hosts file. Or am I
> > > wrong here? And thank you for the updated apt program.
> > >
> > > On Sat 10 Feb 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > If you grab APT 4 from http://people.debian.org/~jgg/apt I think I
> > > > put a work around in it..
> > > >
> > > > Jason
