[Bug 556293] Re: apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

[Martin Pitt]

Note that for many releases now the proxy configuration guy (through
ubuntu-system-service) is supposed to set the proxy in both the
environment and the apt configuration. It will also ask you whether you
want to apply a proxy configuration system-wide if you try to change it
for your user only. Is that working, or broken?

I reiterate that sudo is the wrong place to fix this. These days
software-center, apt-daemon, etc. don't use sudo, so having this hack
there wouldn't actually help to make the package installers see the
proxy. This really needs to be solved by respecting the proxy settings
in /etc/environment.

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Title:
  apt/aptitude need to take global proxy settings into account

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: sudo

  sudo version 1.7.2p1 in Ubuntu Lucid Beta 1 does not keep the
  http_proxy variable any more. So "sudo aptitude update" doesn't work
  in my work environment any more after update from Karmic.

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