[Bug 42529] Re: behind proxy ubiquity won't work

2006-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 14599 *** Thanks for all your reports. This is basically bug 14599, and will be fixed along with that. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 14599 installation hangs if the computer is behind a proxy -- behind proxy ubiquity won't work https://laun

[Bug 42529] Re: behind proxy ubiquity won't work

2006-08-23 Thread Kaleo
I tried Dapper 6.06.1 behind the same proxy as few months ago (when it failed) and it worked perfectly. -- behind proxy ubiquity won't work https://launchpad.net/bugs/42529 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 42529] Re: behind proxy ubiquity won't work

2006-08-03 Thread Kyle Gordon
It may be prudent to ask the user to confirm or deny the presence of a proxy after the failure of the first apt download (or some other test). That, combined with progress bars, would allow users to be prompted for relevant info if required, but also let users in a 'open' network just carry on inst

[Bug 42529] Re: behind proxy ubiquity won't work

2006-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
I did just try an installation here after configuring an HTTP proxy in System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy. Ubiquity did honour it, as I could tell with netstat, strace, et al - but that didn't necessarily mean it wasn't slow! I feel that a significant improvement could be gained here by making

[Bug 42529] Re: behind proxy ubiquity won't work

2006-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
This patch is unnecessary. Ubiquity already passes the http_proxy variable straight through to apt-get, wget, etc., and they will honour it if it's set. There's no need to copy the environment variable into apt-get's configuration. -- behind proxy ubiquity won't work https://launchpad.net/bugs/42

[Bug 42529] Re: behind proxy ubiquity won't work

2006-07-12 Thread Kaleo
I wrote a quick and dirty patch so that if the proxy is set up either in System/Preferences/Proxies or in the $http_proxy environment variable, it will be taken into account in ubiquity. This is thanks to the correction of bug #13661 where gksu has been given the ability to set $http_proxy accordin

[Bug 42529] Re: behind proxy ubiquity won't work

2006-07-11 Thread Kaleo
** Bug 51426 has been marked a duplicate of this bug -- behind proxy ubiquity won't work https://launchpad.net/bugs/42529 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs