Dave Plater wrote:
This doesn't answer your question but aria2c, from what I have observed, does a very good job of checking file existence on mirrors by itself. That is as long a http://download.opensuse.org is used and maybe the easier approach is to rely more on aria2c's reporting. Don't quite know how the refresh process works though but this is so as far as package download is concerned.
No, the usecase is different. Sometimes libzypp wants to know if the file is there, but if it is, not to download it. curl can do a head request only. This is use for repository probing for example.
To shed a bit of light according to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458708#c7 /root/.curlrc overrides the environment variable and various program options I have seen override option files and environment variables. i.e. if libzypp passes an option from its config file it will override all others. Sorry I can't think of a zypp.conf option to actually test this with. Regards Dave P
I found my answer: libcurl respects the environment variables http_proxy, ftp_proxy, all_proxy etc, if any of those are set. The CURLOPT_PROXY <http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTPROXY> option does however override any possibly set environment variables. Setting the proxy string to "" (an empty string) will explicitly disable the use of a proxy, even if there is an environment variable set for it. I need to make sure we set the option to "" if the proxy was disabled on sysconfig, I guess. Duncan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org