Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

["Duncan Mac-Vicar P." <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>]

Peter Poeml wrote:
> YaST could simply read the current setting from /etc/sysconfig/proxy
> when it starts, and put them into the environment, so they would be used
> by both libcurl and aria2c.
>
> This would break with the principle of least surprise for some users,
> who expect the current *environment* to be decisive; things to do in a
> shell like 
>  # http_proxy= yast2
> or
>  # http_proxy=http://different-proxy.example.com:3128/ yast2
> to temporarily override a setting would no longer be working.
>
> I tend to agree, however, that most "normal" users would benefit from 
> yast2 reading the settings from /etc/sysconfig/proxy afresh, thus
> ignoring the enviromnent. It would give *those* users what they expect,
> I guess.
>   
Right now, the MediaAria backend is just an extended MediaCurl. So when
attaching a http media, it reads Sysconfig, and sets the proxy from
there, unless the user override it in the url.

However, I am not sure how libcurl or aria handle the environment
variable or curlrc.

Duncan
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