On Wed, June 30, 2021 5:28 am, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > Hello list! > > I just upgraded one of our lab machines from 6.8 to 6.9 > (amd64), and our lab environment is closed to the Internet, > so using an HTTP proxy is required to reach out. > > I have set http_proxy, ftp_proxy and https_proxy in > /etc/login.conf, the default class, but it is apparently > not used by rc.firstboot after sysupgrade. > > With the new installer in 6.9 rc.firstboot seems to be > a background process that hangs because of this, so when I > logged in as root after remote upgrade I resolved the stalemate > by first killing an ftp job serving fw_update, then a similar > download job serving syspatch, and waited until the not updated > kernel was relinked. > Then I could run fw_update and syspatch manually. > > Is there a better / proper way to set a HTTP/HTTPS proxy > for sysupgrade? > > Cheers > -- > > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB >
I simply echo the export statements of the proxy environment variables to /etc/rc.firstime before reboot. The installer will always append to the file so fw_update will be added after the variables are exported. The ftp process will timeout in, I think, 5 minutes. That is a long time, but you're not going to be hung there forever. Tim.
