[Bug 1317054] Re: no_proxy preseeding not supported

[Colin Watson]

I don't believe there's a good way to do this right now.  apt-setup is
the installer component where this should probably be fixed.

In the meantime the simplest suggestion I have is to use
preseed/late_command to append lines to /target/etc/apt/apt.conf.  That
won't cover the situation where you need to install some packages from
the corporate repositories during initial system installation; if you
need that then let me know and I may be able to put together a rather
more complicated piece of preseeding to do the job.

** Changed in: apt-setup (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: apt-setup (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  no_proxy preseeding not supported

Status in “apt-setup” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hi all,

  I've hunted high and low for the answer to this question, through
  every document I can think of on the topic, and through the debian-
  installer sources (on Debian's anonscm.debian.org site no less) for
  the answer to this.

  We have a exterior proxy server running apt-cacher-ng which we use for
  fetching package updates for all systems including the ones in the
  DMZ.  We preseed this in the Ubuntu installation like so:

  d-i mirror/http/proxy string http://apt-cache.our.domain:3142

  So far so good.

  We also have some corporate APT repositories for some in-house
  packages.  These are *NOT* accessible to the DMZ, and I'd rather not
  have to funnel requests through a second apt-cacher-ng instance that
  can access these internal repositories.

  APT itself has a provision for this:
  Acquire::http::Proxy "http://apt-cache.my.domain:3142";
  Acquire::http::Proxy::secret-apt-repo.my.domain DIRECT;

  There's also the old fashioned no_proxy environment variable, which
  apt respects along with http_proxy (which debian-installer sets).

  I don't see any mention anywhere of a mirror/http/no_proxy… where do I
  set this configuration parameter?

  Regards,
  Stuart Longland

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