On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:58:31 -0300 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 October 2013 00:39:51 Francesco Poli wrote: > > Control: severity -1 wishlist > > Control: found -1 apt-listbugs/0.0.1 > > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > Yup, should have been wishlist from starters, my bad on that one. No hay problema, it was easy enough to fix! ;-) [...] > > > I wasn't aware of the existence of this APT configuration option... > > I see from apt changelog that it is present in unstable since > > apt/0.8.0, but I fail to find where it is documented... > > The apt.conf(5) man page does not seem to talk about it! > > > > Could you please tell me where I can find an explanation of this option > > and its use? > > IIRC, it's undocumented :-( Mmmmh, to be frank, I am a bit hesitant about implementing support for an undocumented APT configuration option... Maybe we should first wait for this option to be (stabilized and) properly documented: please file a bug report against package apt to request the addition of a suitable section to the apt.conf(5) man page, if you feel like it. [...] > > Please let me understand: what do you need to do in your network in > > order to access http://bugs.debian.org, for instance with a web browser? > > Do you need to go through a proxy? Or can you also access it directly? > > Which proxy do you need to use, if any? Not acng, I suppose... > > Is this proxy auto-detected somehow? How? > > Manually configure http://proxy.example.com:8080/. Interestingly enough > specifying acng before calling apt-get/aptitude will work. Possibly acng > detects that the request is not for a package and delivers it to the main > proxy, which it also has configured. This means that apt-listbugs could use the acng proxy, if it knew about the ProxyAutoDetect option. But also that apt-listbugs may well use the main proxy, just like your web browsers have to do. Is this correct? Please note that you can set the Acquire::HTTP::Proxy::bugs.debian.org option in order to specify a proxy to be used by apt-listbugs. Is that enough to solve your issue? If I understand correctly, you have to manually set the main proxy for web browsers anyway: how is that different from setting it manually for apt-listbugs? Are you just trying to reduce the number of manual settings for a box that switches from a network to another with different proxies? On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:49:54 -0300 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: [...] > Please note that even passing LANG=C apt-listbug messages are kept in > es_AR.UTF-8 Did you try with LC_ALL=C ? Maybe you have LC_ALL=es_AR.UTF-8 and that takes precedence over LANG, if I recall correctly (I don't remember whether this is a bug or a feature!). Unsetting LC_ALL and then setting LANG=C should also work... Aaargh! What a mess! Where is all this documented?!? Anyway, no need to re-send the debug output: the tests you documented in your latest message are perfectly clear and seem to confirm that apt-listbugs is able to work both through your main proxy and through your acng proxy. We just have to figure out the best way for you to tell apt-listbugs to use one of the two proxies... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
pgpa53borSGZX.pgp
Description: PGP signature
