curse you gmail! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andre "Osku" Schmidt <andre.osku.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:41 PM Subject: Re: AIF through proxy To: Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:19:18 +0200 > "Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" <andre.osku.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello Arch, >> >> is anyone using the arch installer with squid proxy ? >> (or any other cache proxy) >> >> i'm again so close my goal that it makes me nervous :) >> >> - squid installed on the host machine, 192.168.0.35:3128 >> - vbox client in the same machine, network bridged >> >> after login in the arch 2010.05 image (as vbox client) i do: >> # dhcpcd eth0 >> # export ftp_proxy='192.168.0.35:3128' >> # export http_proxy='192.168.0.35:3128' >> # pacman -Syu >> >> and it works, it gets the db from the proxy cache, and also updates >> pacman from there (i see it in the squid logs, and download speed). >> everything works ok. >> >> then i tried to use the attached pacinst.aif file as profile for aif >> -p automatic installation and i get the attached aif.log... >> (it fails on getting the core.db.tar.gz) > > no attachment? hmm, i see them in my gmail client... yeah. im lazy :) but what ever, here: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/216751/ http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/216759/ >> i cant attach any debug.log cause `aif -p automatic -c pacinst.aif -d >> -l` doesnt create any /var/log/aif/debug.log and `aif -d -l -p >> automatic -c pacinst.aif` > can you try an absolute path for pacinst.aif? same invalid URL scheme error >> just gives me the usage info, without any >> errors... and also the "Invalid URL scheme" errors that i see in tty7 >> are nowhere to find in /var/log/* > > what i would do in a case like this is just monitor the output of > 'pstree' to see which processes is running (ie wget, pacman, ..), then > you can debug the networking issue from there. oooh! you learn new things every day :) super tip. thanks! i got something, maybe pstree shows (when it hangs in url scheme error) aif /sbin/aif -p automatic -c /root/pacinst.aif -d -l |--pacman --root /mnt --config /tmp/pacman.conf -Sy and as according to some forum post (and it seems to work only with this) i had to uncomment: XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget ... in /etc/pacman.conf to get pacman to work on the installer image console. and now looking at the /tmp/pacman.conf, this option is missing. but as i assumed (and test showed) the /tmp/pacman.conf gets newly generated on every aif run. so i cant edit that. what file could i edit to get that xfercommand in /tmp/pacman.conf (this looks even closer, OMG! /me is crossing fingers... :)
