Alok Aggarwal wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Alok Aggarwal wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Alok Aggarwal wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Jens Deppe wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I recently submitted bug 4487 which addresses the inability to use http
>>>> proxies with the auto installer:
>>>>
>>>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4487
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to pick this up and do the work for this RFE. It looks fairly
>>>> straight forward.
>>> It should be quite straight forward.
>>>
>>>> The approach I was thinking to take is to add the proxy value into the
>>>> manifest, as in:
>>>>
>>>> <ai_manifest name="default">
>>>> <ai_pkg_repo_default_authority>
>>>> <main url="http://pkg.opensolaris.org";
>>>> authname="opensolaris.org"/>
>>>> <mirror url=""/>
>>>> <proxy>http://10.1.149.91:8080</proxy>
>>> I'd change the proxy tag to be -
>>>
>>> <proxy url="http://10.1.149.91:8080"/>
>> Actually thinking about this a little more, it is
>> quite concievable to have a user set different
>> proxies for different authorities/mirrors. Thus, the following
>> may be more desirable -
>>
>> <ai_manifest name="default">
>> <ai_pkg_repo_default_authority>
>> <main url="http://pkg.opensolaris.org";
>> authname="opensolaris.org" proxy="http://10.1.149.91:8080"/>
>> <mirror url="" proxy="http://172.2.2.5:8080";>
>> ..
>
> Thinking about it even more, it occurs to me that pkg(1)
> doesn't allow this level of control. So, a single proxy
> specification at the top level like Dave says is what is
> best for now.
>
OK, so something like this?
<ai_manifest name="default">
<ai_http_proxy url="http://10.1.1.2:8080"/>
<ai_pkg_repo_default_authority>
...
--Jens
