[Bug 109700] Re: Adept Manager and Adept Updater don't use PROXY SETTINGS when checking for distro updates

[Roberto Maurizzi]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 48682 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48682

Here the problem is not that proxy settings in the browsers are ignored, but that the env variable http_proxy is ignored too, but *only* for the upgrade check.
The effect is insidious because the rest of the package management (apt, aptitude, synaptic, adept...) works flawlessly after you set the variable.
Only, no upgrades on release :-)

I think Bug #48682 would be mostly fixed by setting system wide proxy settings from the browsers (or maybe better by adding a system wide proxy configuration apps in the Settings, that takes care of proxies in browsers and shell). So, IMHO it's not really an Adept problem: if i manually configure the system, all works.
That is not the case for this problem, since the updater itself is trying to get a file without using a proxy or a proxy aware file downloader. So the problem this time is in Adept.
While the fix for #48682  isn't easy to made, changing Adept to use (for example) KGet via dcop or a kio to download the upgrade file should be far easier :-)

Ciao,
   Roberto

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Adept Manager and Adept Updater don't use PROXY SETTINGS when checking for distro updates
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