Add proxy auto detect support
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Groovy |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
We have migrated our Ubuntu desktops to use the APT config option 'Acquire:
Looking at the 'init_proxy' function it seems that only the 'Acquire:
A workaround that I managed to use is to export the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables and then run `do-release-
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Groovy): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: fr-826 |
tags: | removed: rls-gg-incoming |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
There are quite a few places in Ubuntu that have badly adapted apt proxy settings. I think aptdaemon, PackageKit are affected as well. It's not possible to correctly reimplement apt proxy settings by reading configuration, files need to be fetched by apt's acquire library.