[Bug 283500] Re: Synaptic, update-manager, apt-get and wget should share proxy settings
Brian Murray
brian at ubuntu.com
Wed Mar 7 00:28:59 UTC 2012
Currently in Precise, the development release of Ubuntu that will become
12.04, if you setup a network proxy in the Network portion of System
Settings this will be set in /etc/environment and /etc/apt/apt.conf.
Subsequently, update-manger, apt, synaptic and wget will all use the
same settings. So I am setting this to Fix Released.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Fix Released
** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Fix Released
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Fix Released
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Title:
Synaptic, update-manager, apt-get and wget should share proxy
settings
Status in The synaptic package manager:
New
Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “synaptic” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: synaptic
I installed Intrepid on one of my lab machines today. It needs to use
a proxy server to get updates.
What I did was:
Go to Synaptic, Settings->Preferences->Network
I then entered my proxy server information there. Things seemed to
work since I could then refresh packages, so I closed it.
The update manager then told me I had updates to install, so I clicked on the update manager. The update manager, however, doesn't use Synaptic's proxy configuration settings -- it uses its own. So, everything failed, and in order to fix it I had to go to the Gnome Network Proxy preferences and configure one there globally (then click "apply system-wide")
This is all less than ideal.
I can't think of a use case where a user would want to have different
proxy configuration for Synaptic and update manager (or command-line
apt-get, for that matter). So, they should use the same setting, in a
standard way. It would be nice if Synaptic made it obvious if it was
using a system-wide setting that Gnome set as well - something like a
checkbox or radio button for "use system-wide proxy settings".
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