Re: [gentoo-user] Portage through a proxy

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:11:42 -0400, James Colby wrote:

> Does anyone know if it possible to configure emerge to use the value of
> $http_proxy as my proxy?  I use my laptop both at home and at work, I
> have a script that sets the $http_proxy env variable depending on where
> I am, and I would like to have emerge use that value.  I have tried
> setting http_proxy in make.conf to $http_proxy but that did not work.

Portage uses wget by default, and wget respects $http_proxy. According
to /etc/make.conf.example

# Fetching files 
# ==============
#
# If you need to set a proxy for wget or lukemftp, add the appropriate "export
# ftp_proxy=<proxy>" and "export http_proxy=<proxy>" lines to /etc/profile if
# all users on your system should use them.


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