i just followed the proxy note from the gentoo handbook. i believe you
have to use what works for wget, curl, or lynx.
export http_proxy="http://proxy.server.com:port";
export ftp_proxy="http://proxy.server.com:port";
something like that should work depending on your shell.
matt
On Thu, 20 May 2010, [email protected] wrote:
The "Gentoo Prefix Use Cases" paper
(http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/usecases.xml) has
scenarios where Gentoo Prefix is used in enterprise environments. It is
not unusual that machines in such environments have Internet access
through some kind of HTTP proxy.
I think it would be a good idea for the step-by-step instructions (e g
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml) to
include recommendations on how to specify an HTTP proxy for the bootstrap
process. Perhaps it is not easy to cover all possible proxy
configurations, but probably it would go a long way to just indicate how
to do in a typical case.
Some time ago I found that putting proxy details in etc/wgetrc appeared to
solve the problem for me. Recently this doesn't work anymore
(http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320555).
Proxy info is also needed in ~/.subversion/servers; at least that is what
I have. It would be nicer if the subversion config files could be folded
into the prefix tree, I haven't looked into this.
Maybe there is more to it that I can't think of now. Anyway, if someone
adds instructions to the step-by-step page I volunteer to try them out.
--Rabbe Fogelholm
