On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, James Blackwell wrote: > What would you think about having a line in sources.list such as: > > proxy http://www.theproxy.com/3128 ? > > I know that it's possible to set an environment variable prior to running > apt (http_proxy), but for reasons such as su, I thought having an entry in > sources.list may be more convienant. > > Would you mind if I made a patch and sent it in? I haven't written it yet, > but I would be more than willin to do so.
The unreleased experimental APT (v3) allows you to set this in a configuration file, echo "acquire::http::proxy \"http://../\";"; >> /etc/apt.conf Jason
