gpg doesn't get the right proxy configuration
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Software Properties |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
software-properties (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
eric@kingfisher:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers
Executing: gpg --ignore-
gpg: requesting key 8844C542 from hkp server keyserver.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: b8398b21075a3a8
CheckboxSystem: 703a6ca1eefae98
Date: Mon Oct 5 15:08:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: software-
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: software-properties
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
It looks like add-apt-repository doesn't seem to set the http_proxy variable for GPG, so if you're behind a proxy the keyserver is always 'down'. The process hangs and the only signal it seems to respond to is -9 (C-\).