[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

[Oliver Dungey]

Taylor - I know that is a valid solution for many situations but it is
not really a workaround, that is using the wrong users environment
settings.

I have been working for 3 years with the Amazon Cloud from inside a big
corporate and I am sick to the back teeth of these proxy issues that
have been floating around for years. For every one that gets fixed
another creeps in.

I suspect the entire approach to proxy configuration is wrong: it needs
to be invisible to the applications, they should not require additional
code to support proxy servers when the whole thing can be transparent. I
think the best solution would be to run a lightweight forwarding-only
transparent proxy server locally.

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Title:
  apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: sudo

  sudo version 1.7.2p1 in Ubuntu Lucid Beta 1 does not keep the
  http_proxy variable any more. So "sudo aptitude update" doesn't work
  in my work environment any more after update from Karmic.

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