Just wanted to add the comment that this bug is currently blocking me from upgrading servers in my DMZ to 9.10.
DMZ machines are not allowed to connect to the Internet directly so we use the http_proxy env variable We also use apt-cacher to redirect/cache our install files. With this bug in place we simply can't do an update as although the system can happily fetch deb files off the internet via apt-cacher urls it still uses a direct http connection to get the upgrade script which our firewall will not let it do. Configuring apt.conf to use our proxy for apt installs is a stupid workaround as we would then have our server connecting to our proxy, so that it can then in-turn connect to our apt-cacher url to retrieve the deb files for installation. I would also like to point out the following comment at the top of the init_proxy method: * first check for http_proxy environment (always wins), * then check the apt.conf http proxy, * then look into synaptics conffile * then into gconf (if gconfclient was supplied) Seems like it "should" be using the http_proxy env variable but isn't. For the above reasons I am a little surprised that this has been triaged as "wishlist". -- update-manager-core DistUpgrade/utils.py does not honour http_proxy env variable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472234 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
