On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 02.08.2012 11:20, schrieb Oon-Ee Ng: >> On my personal machine I've long-since changed XferCommand, but on >> doing a new install on another machine with the latest iso (behind a >> proxy, which is a first for me), I figured out that a problem I was >> having was linked to pacman NOT using wget by default. Is it just me, >> or wasn't wget the default before? > > As Mantas correctly indicated, pacman does not use an external download > manager by default, but it downloads files internally using curl. > > Why would you even change that behaviour? Using an external download > manager only slows pacman down. In my personal laptop's case - I use aria2c due to horrible network communicativity (is that a word?) in various locations I regularly visit. > >> Just to be clear, I was getting proxy related errors even after >> changing /etc/wgetrc (as instructed in the beginner's guide). > > It's a wiki. Everyone can edit it, so everyone's misconceptions are in > there. > And I've edited it to correct it, thank you all for your clarifications. On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:38 PM, German Cabarcas <cmdr.chili@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> libcurl honors $http_proxy in environment (lowercase – not $HTTP_PROXY). > > > Probably the problem comes with the use of sudo. In my case at work I use > /etc/profile.d/ to get around the proxy, and configure sudo to preserve the > proxy variables inherited from the file in /etc/profile.d/ In this specific case (new install behind a proxy) sudo doesn't yet come into the picture as we're still running as root at that point.
