Thanks for your bugreport. I can reproduce this here too, it turns out that the bug is that sudo is much more strict about the environement variables and filters everything out that is not in a special (and very small) whitelist. This includes http_proxy.
-- [ubuntu hardy alpha 3] update behind proxy - connections time out https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
