Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
> 2009/1/21 Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>   
> > Does this mean it is possible to disable proxy use by libzypp without
> > relogin?
> >     
>
> environ(7) explains editting the environment of current process, which
> affects forked children.  But that does not affect parent processes,
> it's  a local not global change.  So in general no.
>
> For curl usage by YaST, always nullify http_proxy and only use
> ~root/.curlrc, or manage it's own setting somewhere to overwrite the
> _proxy variables, might be a solution.
>
> > From curl(1)
>
>  -x/--proxy <proxyhost[:port]>
>  Use specified HTTP proxy. If the port number is not specified, it is
> assumed at port 1080.
>  This option overrides existing environment variables that sets proxy
> to use. If there's an environment variable setting a proxy, you can
> set proxy to "" to override it.
>
>   
Ok I just tested, I disabled proxy via yast and then shut squid down.
..curl was then cleaned out but the variable $http_proxy still contained
the proxy address and zypper ref failed. I then export http_proxy= and
zypper ref worked correctly. From this I would conclude yast proxy
settings should clear the environment variable when proxy is disabled
and the problem of logout/login being required would be solved, would
you agree?
Regards
Dave P

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