Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3225 mails)

["John Battista" <johnbat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James.
Apt4rpm works wonderfully over firewall/proxy
Here's how.

At your bash console do this:

Bash# export http_proxy=(address-of-proxy:port)
Bash# export ftp_proxy=(address-of-proxy:port)

At this time I do not think apt4rpm supports placing the proxy in
apt.conf, cause this is normally where it would go.
But both apt and fou4s will work at the cli with the exports like this.
You have to do it each time you get to login to cli or you can place the
export perm in your bash.rc ( I think)

John B

-----Original Message-----
From: James.Rocks@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:James.Rocks@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 6:28 AM
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [SLE] Yast 2 SUCKS !!!

Hi Stuart, Fabio,

> My my, we are impatient, aren't we ? After what for you were four
> brilliant releases, SuSE put out a release that hasn't worked out so
well
for
> you, and you are getting ready to drop them like a rock. For me, SuSE8
has,
> on the whole, been very good. A couple of problems, certainly,
> but nothing insurmountable. There is no perfect distribution out
there,
and
> if you jump ship to a different distro, you'll most likely find
> more problems than solutions.

I think SuSE 8.0 is pretty good, certainly I feel the best of the major
(more complete) distro's but more to the point it's the only one that
seems
to support my onboard raid.

No perfect distro? Probably arguable that there's no perfect OS isn't
it?

> SuSE is a very well rounded distro, and is very well put together. Any
x.0
> release from any software vendor is going to have more bugs in it than
a
> point release. If 7.3/YaST1 work for you, why not stick with it ?
> What pressing reason do you have to upgrade to 8.0 other than it is
> the latest and greatest ?

That brings up a question ... will we get charged for a new update? Hmmm
... thinking about that we probably will so do you think SuSE will give
us
a reduction on having bought 8.0?

> Now for my $0.02 on YaST2 - Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeez make a key combo
> that allows me to tab backwards through the fields ! Other than that,
I
> find it is acceptable, especially when combined with something
> like Webmin.

Good idea :-)

I would also like them to spend some time getting YaSt2 to work via
proxy's
of various sorts as I remain unable to update my installation and no one
is
able to explain in simple enough terms (I'm a brain damaged Windows
techie
<G>) to make it or apt4rpm or fou4s work over proxy (though to be fair
it
may have something to do with my network config).

Anyway, to cut the crap, I like SuSE, I've seen better in some respects
(usually speed) but SuSE is a good all rounder.

James

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