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update-notifier package

  1. Bug #979477
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 979477

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Thomas Bushnell, BSG (tbushnell) wrote :

There is an apt proxy, in fact. This is a regression; the old script before the change simply fetched the files directly.

We set the proxy with

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://internal-hostname:PORT/"

(where "internal-hostname" is a hostname, and "PORT" is a decimal for the correct port on which the proxy runs.

If I remove the proxy specification, it works fine.

I think this is a bad way to go; the Apt proxy specifies specifically where apt looks, and should not be specifying where downloads in general happen.