> Oiivier, > > Its great pacman is now supported for updating. When I was working with > others to update the build and doc to work with newer archlinux versions I > tried most everything asking many on the archlinux forum for help. No one > could offer a good solution that did not break update security or require > manual opening and closing of the firewall access. > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-users/tim$20w$20pacman/qubes-users/vT_ETcU5BvQ/sDhu879WDQAJ > I also had a thread on dev. > > How was the functionality added? To pacman to allow for proxy addition > without going thru wget or thru a change in qubes update proxy service? Hello,
In fact I use curl which is included by default (as pacman apparently use curl libraries anyway). I update the configuration in /etc/pacman.d/ to use curl with a proxy by calling curl with http_proxy environment variable. No changes is actually required to the qubes update proxy. > I found the powerpill pacman wrapper which used aria2 to allow for proxy > without breaking update proxy security to be at the time the best avenue not > to mention its added power and speed. The only issue to have made everything > completely smooth was the reflector app to keep update mirror list current > had no option to allow for a proxy entry. I planned to send a email to xyne > to see if he could add it as he has been quite responsive in the past to > similar request. > > Really glad its now working. The reason I ask about how it was addressed is > I wondered if it would allow reflector program to go thru or does it have > still have the proxy option to plug in the ip? > > Thanks again for keeping the distro updated and working. > I did not tested reflector yet. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/2d80d86c-2f40-9d20-292c-4b9694f1c12b%40yahoo.fr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
