On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Thomas Viehweger wrote: > I wanted to use my local wwwoffle-proxy to buffer connections to the > internet. How must I set up the line in the file /etc/apt/sources.list ? Or > which environment variable do I have to set? > In the manual page sources.list(5) there is a reference to ftp.conf(5), but I > cannot find the file. To what package does it belong?
It is not possible for apt to use FTP with http proxies, you can use a HTTP site and set the http_proxy environment variable though. Jason
