[Popcon-developers] Bug#365681: Bug#365681: Bug#365681: Bug#365681: popcon: using http_proxy

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:27:02AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Bill Allombert]
> > Why ? /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest is also a conffile.
> 
> To avoid questions during upgrade.  We as the package maintainers are
> unlikely to edit /etc/popularity-contest.conf as part of the package
> (as it isn't a conffile, but might end up modifying
> /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest, and if the sysadmin edits
> /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest it will give him more work during
> upgrades than editing /etc/popularity-contest.conf.

So are you suggesting we apply my proposed change to
/etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest ?

if [ -n "$HTTP_PROXY" ]; then
  export http_proxy="$HTTP_PROXY";
fi

or something better ?

> > On the other hand do you know systems that use http_proxy ? How they
> > do that.
> 
> I believe it is normally set using /etc/environment for systems were
> it should be set globally.

I was not sure if /etc/environment was affecting cronjob, but it seems
to be the case, so this should work already.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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