FWIW I attached a patch to to bug #446552 that rewrites url_downloadable use urllib2 which may (should I think) fix this bug as well. It was mentioned that a urllib2 based fix was more ideal than the environment based workaround, but I suppose if it's working, it's working.
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37562858/use-urllib2-in- url_downloadable-3.diff -- version upgrade via update-manager or do-release-upgrade does not work with proxy authentication https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479391 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs