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msttcorefonts package

postinst does not obey http_proxy

Bug #32933 reported by Paul Sladen
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #2015: Should have a http_proxy debconf key. Edit Remove
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msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

msttcorefonts downloads loads of archives of Microsoft fonts from Sourceforce. For the proxy URL it uses:

  db_get msttcorefonts/http_proxy
  HTTP_PROXY=${RET:+-p$RET}

but this doesn't seem to get set/updated anywhere.

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Mathieu Alorent (kumy) wrote :

durring the install of msttcorefont, the configure part doesn't use the proxy configured in synaptic to download the font files.

Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in msttcorefonts:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug seems similar to bug 2015. Please, could you confirm this?

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Benjamin Montgomery (bmonty) wrote :

Your debconf priority probably isn't set correctly to be prompted for a proxy server.

The question to set the proxy server is at priority level medium. You can use "dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium msttcorefonts" and you should be prompted for a proxy server URL. A new version of msttcorefonts is in the archive (1.2ubuntu3) that will check for a proxy server set in the environment and if so use that to download the fonts.

Changed in msttcorefonts:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
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