On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:08:04PM +0300, z wrote:
hi. Am i right, that this will affect proxy management for yast\zypper? There was issue https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458708 due to curl environment vars for proxy can it be handeled gracefully since now? Thanks in advance
It will affect proxy handling in so far that the new download backend has slightly different characteristics of how it opens connections, does its HTTP requests -- changes on that level.
What's unchanged is that any system-wide proxy setting is propagated to the download backend as before, with the little difference that .curlrc isn't relevant anymore. (Unless the old download backend is used, that is; but it should not be used anymore by default now.)
Ok. What was bad in curl is requiring relogin to switch off proxy: "Switching proxy from On to Off: YaST module clears /root/.curlrc file, but until relogin, $http_proxy variable remains set and libcurl (thus, libzypp too) still uses that URL even though you don't want to use proxy anymore."
Maybe someone can tell, if there is any method to turn proxy off for aria2c, while environment still contains old proxy settings? Something like a settings file, which is preferred over the environment, and can force aria2 to not to use proxy?
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. Peter -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org