sorry, forgot the list again... wont happen again! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andre "Osku" Schmidt <andre.osku.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:50 PM Subject: Re: AIF through proxy To: Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@xxxxxxxxx> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. *DOH* (homer style) yes! i forgot to add http:// and ftp:// to the variables >.<* this works wonderfully with squid: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/216945/ now i only wonder what would be the best way and place to save these variables in the installed system ? in worker_configure_system() in the users aif profile ? but where should i write them on the installed system ? and can i restrict it only to pacman ? (for general proxy like squid. pacproxy.py would be only used by pacman, hence my main interest on it) 1000x thanks for the tips!
