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update-manager package

  1. Bug #24250
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 24250

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Matt Mossholder (matt-mossholder) wrote : Re: Doesn't honor gnome proxy settigs

I think I know what is going on here. When you set the proxy settings in your Gnome Preferences, it does two different things:

      - Sets the /system/http_proxy gconf keys
      - Sets the $http_proxy environment variable.

It appears to be the second of these that is causing the problem (at least for me). If you do an "unset http_proxy" from the command line, and then do a "sudo update-manager" things work fine. There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the content of the $http_proxy variable (i.e. http://<user>:<pass>@<proxy-server>:<port>/ ), so I can only assume that update manager isn't parsing it correctly.