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The "Gentoo Prefix Use Cases" paper |
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(http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/usecases.xml) has |
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scenarios where Gentoo Prefix is used in enterprise environments. It is |
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not unusual that machines in such environments have Internet access |
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through some kind of HTTP proxy. |
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I think it would be a good idea for the step-by-step instructions (e g |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml) to |
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include recommendations on how to specify an HTTP proxy for the bootstrap |
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process. Perhaps it is not easy to cover all possible proxy |
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configurations, but probably it would go a long way to just indicate how |
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to do in a typical case. |
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Some time ago I found that putting proxy details in etc/wgetrc appeared to |
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solve the problem for me. Recently this doesn't work anymore |
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(http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320555). |
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Proxy info is also needed in ~/.subversion/servers; at least that is what |
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I have. It would be nicer if the subversion config files could be folded |
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into the prefix tree, I haven't looked into this. |
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Maybe there is more to it that I can't think of now. Anyway, if someone |
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adds instructions to the step-by-step page I volunteer to try them out. |
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--Rabbe Fogelholm |
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