Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
> 2009/1/21 z <zoomer.gm@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>   
> > OK, i don't aknowledged with curl\libcurl (which libzypp uses?)
> > Is there a way to force all curl calls from libzypp to use only
> > ~/.curlrc settings? (which yast can control)
> >     
>
> That's what I think will happen if http_proxy etc are always
> nullified, when yast uses libzyp & libcurl.
> forked children meant future ones forked after the change.
>
> 2009/1/21 Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>   
If I do that in bash.bashrc.local then maybe it might work?
Regards
Dave P
> > 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 editing 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.
> >     


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