[Bug 712812] Re: gpg doesn't see the mandatory http proxy

[Martin Pool]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 443404 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443404

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 888379
   add-apt-repository should look at apt.conf for proxy
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 443404
   gpg doesn't get the right proxy configuration

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Title:
  gpg doesn't see the mandatory http proxy

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  There are a few cases like bug 712666 and bug 710054 where users seem
  to need an http proxy, and they have it set up well enough that they
  can get to Launchpad, but it's not configured into gpg.

  Many users will not have used gpg before, and they probably haven't
  configured it, and I don't think it reads the standard $http_proxy
  etc.  So they get fairly cryptic failures as in those bugs.

  I can think of a few things we could do:

   * read the key over http ourselves, and feed it into gpg 
   * always pass --keyserver-options honor-http-proxy
   * determine the proxy we think is best and explicitly pass that

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: python-software-properties 0.76.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Feb  4 10:02:35 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_AU.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: software-properties

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