Re: wget using a proxy

On Tuesday 24 July 2001 10:51 am, you wrote:
> i can't use ipkg wo update packages because i have to go through a web
> proxy. I have added the line http_proxy =
> http://www-cache.soton.ac.uk:3128/ to the /etc/wget file but it still won't
> connect... What am I doing wrong?

If you are using ipkg v0.4 it's not proxy aware - upgrade to v0.7 (proxy
aware) or v0.9(proxy + multiple sources, from unstable.).

Unfortunately to do that you need a working ipkg!

The workaround is to export the http_proxy environment variable by hand
before running ipkg, then ipkg upgrade, edit your ipkg.conf again and you're
done.

HTH

Will

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