[indiana-discuss] Package Manager + http proxy ?

[Calum Benson]

On 7 May 2008, at 10:59, Andris Strazdins wrote:

>> AFAIR, setting the proxy in System -> Preferences ->
>> Network Proxy
>> will add http_proxy to the environment on login.
>>
>> Laca
>>
>
> Yes it sets http_proxy. If you launch
> gksu /usr/bin/packagemanager from terminal then everything works OK.  
> But if you launch package manager from menu System->Administration- 
> >Package Manager then network access via proxy fails. IMO this could  
> not be expected behaviour because making package manager accessible  
> through menu means that it should be usable that way.

I've filed <http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1835>

Cheeri,
Calum.

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