[OLPC-AU] [Sugar-devel] Software Update and HTTP proxies

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Wed Jan 19 20:48:09 EST 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 12:31 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On 20 January 2011 09:44, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 08:51 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:53:15AM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > Ok, you can define the proxy in .gconf/system/http_proxy with gnome or
> > gconftool-2 but the variables don't enter sugar's environment.
> 
> Thinking aloud: maybe we could have a script that reads the gconf
> value and duplicates it as an environment variable?
> 

Like a wrapper around sugar-control-panel that sets the http_proxy
variable from .gconf or the cli? That will work, less than ideal, but
quick to deploy.  

Jerry




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