or i fail in using gmail... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andre "Osku" Schmidt <andre.osku.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, May 22, 2010 at 2:04 AM Subject: Re: AIF through proxy To: Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:41:12 +0200 > "Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" <andre.osku.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> 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... :) > > another tip: just grep in the aif source code and you'll see. > > if you grep for '/tmp/pacman.conf' you'll see there is a function > target_write_pacman_conf in lib-pacman.sh, like any other function you > can override this with your own. awesome tip! many thanks, again! at line 72 in /usr/lib/aif/core/libs/lib-pacman.sh i added: XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u and aif gets packets though squid! and whats even better, pacproxy.py works too, YAY! going to bed tired and happy :) .andre
