On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Jorge [iso-8859-1] F�bregas wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm having a weird problem running up2date with a proxy. If I configure the > proxy using: up2date --configure and I enter the proxy in the format: > host:ip-number and I run up2date it doesn't work. It simply hangs (the > little window showing the retrieving of headers stays there). However, If I > (on the shell) export the variable http_proxy and I assign the proper value > for it and then I run up2date there...it works fine. So, my question is: why > is just considering the value for http_proxy (envirionment variable) and not > the one I configured for it using "up2date --configure" ? It is a long standing bug (102272). Michael Young
