Git fetch fails behind proxy

[emorkay]

Hi,
Git fetch is failed every time I tried creating OS media for Ubuntu 10.10 using this tool. I am in a university and we are behind a proxy which requires authentication.
Any ideas how I can get it work?
Thanks,

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

If you set the environment variables for proxy properly before launching dell-recovery they should carry over to the git invocation as far as I know. Do you have them already set for your environment?

[emorkay (emorkay24-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi,
Thanks for the response. I have everything set properly. apt and Ubuntu Software center work properly.
I have set them in System-->Preferences-->Network Proxy.
Thanks,

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Hm. If that's the case, more than likely the env variables that are used to define the proxy are not carrying into the git subprocess invokation.

For now, you can work around the problem by cloning from the URL listed in the tool manually into ~/.config/dell-recovery/ubuntu-fid.

[emorkay (emorkay24-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi,
I've tried this:
git clone git://linux.dell.com/ubuntu-fid.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/<username>/ubuntu-fid/.git/
fatal: Unable to look up linux.dell.com (port 9418) (Name or service not known)

if I do echo $http_proxy, the output was,
http://<ip>:<port>
The authentication credentials don't seem to have been recorded.

Thanks,

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This sounds like it's an issue with the tools for setting up the proxy variables then if they're not storing that bit.

If you export http_proxy yourself to the correct values, does git work and more importantly does the dell-recovery tool work?

[emorkay (emorkay24-deactivatedaccount)]

I tried your suggestion but neither seems to be working.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

So the current versions of dell-recovery have dropped functionality for GIT checkouts. I'll close this bug out.