On Fri, October 6, 2006 11:53 am, Viv Kendon wrote:
> I guess no-one else is using a web proxy?
>
> Anyway, I have been trying to solve this by getting the
> machine in question (pippin) to talk only to my deb server
> (quince) which does have direct internet access).
>
> I have managed to get it to only selfupdate (rsync) with
> quince, so I thought all was well. But trying to update
> all, it is insisting on fetching the deb for
> libncursesw5-shlibs from the bindist, which it can't reach.
> I have rebuilt libncursesw5 on quince, done scanpackages and
> selfupdated on pippin, commented out various lines in
> fink.conf, all to no avail.
>
> Now, there really shouldn't be a problem, since pippin does
> have web proxy access, and this is configured in fink, and
> works fine for web browsers. I think there is something
> wrong with the parsing of this part of the configuration,
> because I don't think I should see the following when it
> tries to fetch the deb from the bindist:
>
> Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main
> libncursesw5-shlibs 5.4-20041023-1001
> Could not connect to 3128:80 (0.0.12.56). - connect (60
> Operation timed out)
> Failed to fetch
> http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/bindist/dists/fink-0.8.1/main/binary-darwin-powerpc//base/libncursesw5-shlibs_5.4-20041023-1001_darwin-powerpc.deb
> Could not connect to 3128:80 (0.0.12.56). - connect (60
> Operation timed out)
>
> Surely "3128:80 (0.0.12.56)" is wrong somehow?
3128 is your proxy port as listed in ProxyHTTP--so it looks like the
parser is looking for the first item after a colon to be the host. Maybe
try prefacing the server address with "http://"; ? So that should attempt
to fix a)
>
> So a) how do I fix the web proxy problem?
> or b) how can I get it to forget about the bindist andfetch
> libncursesw5-shlibs from quince?
I'm not sure when fink.conf and /sw/etc/apt/sources.list sync up; you
could try commenting out the references to the bindist in
/sw/etc/apt/sources.list. However, it may turn itself back on after an
update.
>
> many thanks,
> -- Viv
>
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Viv Kendon wrote:
>
>> From: Viv Kendon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: Fink Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
>> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:55:08 +0100 (BST)
>> Subject: [Fink-users] proxy problems with latest fink (0.25.0-31 ppc)
>>
>> I have just selfupdated a machine behind a web proxy, and I
>> get the following when I try to run fink scanpackages:
>>
>> /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q update
>> Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main
>> Packages
>> Could not connect to 3128:80 (0.0.12.56). - connect (60
>> Operation timed out)
>> Err http://quince.leeds.ac.uk stable/main Packages
>> Could not connect to 3128:80 (0.0.12.56). - connect (60
>> Operation timed out)
>>
>> Note that it happens for both finkmirrors, and a local
>> machine quince, which is reachable without using the web
>> proxy. The error message suggests to me that something is
>> getting parsed incorrectly. I think this worked before
>> updating to the latest fink (which it will have grabbed from
>> quince during the selfupdate):
>>
>> fink --version
>> Package manager version: 0.25.0
>> Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync powerpc
>>
>> i fink 0.25.0-31 The Fink package manager
>> i fink-mirrors 0.25.0.1-1 Mirror infrastructure
>> i fink-prebinding 0.7.1-1002 Tools for enabling
>> prebinding in Fink
>>
>> In fink.conf I have
>>
>> ProxyHTTP: www-cache.leeds.ac.uk:3128
>> ProxyPassiveFTP: true
>> # ProxyFTP: www-cache.leeds.ac.uk:3128
>>
>> (I commented out the ftp line because that was the only
>> change I made when I reran fink-configure to check the
>> mirrors, so I was just checking it had nothing to do with
>> the current problem...)
>>
>> It is also possible somethng that failed during the
>> selfupdate is causing the problems. But I don't have the
>> output from the selfupdate any longer...
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions?
>> -- Viv
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Dr Viv Kendon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Quantum Information tel: 0113 343 3858
>> Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds
>> http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv
>>
--
Alexander K. Hansen
(akh)
Fink Documenter
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