On Friday 18 October 2013 00:48:47 Francesco Poli wrote: > Control: block -1 by 726597
[snip] > > Totally understandable. I'm filling the bug, CCing this one. Saddly > > considering the number of open bugs apt has... :-/ > > Thanks, I see it's bug #726597: I am therefore setting it as a blocking > bug for this one. > Let's wait for some clarity on how the ProxyAutoDetect option is > supposed to work: then I will be able to think about a possible support > in apt-listbugs. Fine :) [snip] > By the way, if I understand correctly, the > /usr/share/squid-deb-proxy-client/apt-avahi-discover > command detects the appropriate acng proxy and prints something like > http://acng.example.com:3142/ > to its stdout. > > Does this command require root privileges or can you just run it as a > regular user and get the correct output? I've just ran it with my regular user and got http://192.168.1.5:3142/, which is correct. [snip] > I can understand... > > I hope KDE writes this setting to an easy-to-read place. > If this is the case, then, while waiting for a more elegant solution, > you could prepare a trivial script that reads the proxy from there and > sets the http_proxy environment variable. > Oh well, the script should be sourced, rather than executed, in order > to set an environment variable that can actually survive after the > script exits... Maybe a shell function (to be placed into your the > shell initialization file) would be better: it would become a > ready-to-use command to update the http_proxy variable... > > This could be useful for other programs too, such as wget or some > textual web browser, I think. > > I hope this helps a bit... I really don't know how KDE or Gnome handles this, but I would expect a dbus thing. -- 18: Como se pueden evitar los problemas de alimentacion electrica * No coma cerca de un enchufe Damian Nadales http://mx.grulic.org.ar/lurker/message/20080307.141449.a70fb2fc.es.html Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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