On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2010 02:04:41 +0200 > "Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" <andre.osku.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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 > > actually i meant you can redefine the target_write_pacman_conf in your > profile (pacinst.aif) > > btw i checked pacman.conf and it seems pacman by default uses a > built-in http thingie, which does not support proxies. > I think for aif, it's probably better to use the wget Xfercommand so > that proxies work, especially for the target system. i'll check this on > the pacman-dev mailing list. > > (btw you forgot reply to all) > > Dieter > libfetch does support many proxy just fine, but it might be less flexible than others. Andre, can you show us *exactly* how you set http_proxy variable ? In particular make sure you specified a protocol for the the URL.
