On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.bela...@st.com> wrote: > I'm setting up a dedicated firewall / http proxy-cache (Squid) for my > home network, with user authentication in 'digest' mode. Works fine with > browsers but sometimes emerge fails. Turns out that some downloads are > done with wget and wget supports only 'basic' authentication with proxy > servers. So now I see the following options: > > 1. use 'basic' authentication on the proxy, or > 2. bypass the authentication for non-browser requests (e.g. using a > 'browser' ACL element?), or > 3. convince emerge to use a different http downloader that supports > 'digest' authentication. > > I'll probably go with 1 or 2 but nevertheless is there any possibility > to pursue 3?
man 5 make.conf, search for FETCHCOMMAND. You could set it to use curl, which supports proxy digest. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
