Bug 111898

Summary:	rpm should use http_proxy environment variable when present
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ricky Ng-Adam <rngadam>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Ricky Ng-Adam 2003-12-11 14:19:43 UTC

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Description of problem:
The rpm man page is clear on how to use proxy and it works, but why
not use the http_proxy variable as most command-line programs do?

Also, why not permit the convention 

http://proxy_host_name:port 

for --httpproxy?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.2.1-0.30

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. export http_proxy=http://proxy_host_name:port
2. try to install an http:// package with RPM without specifying proxy

    

Actual Results:  
[root@localhost /]# rpm -Uvh
http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/apt/fedora/1/RPMS.macromedia/flash-plugin-6.0.79-2.i386.rpm
Retrieving
http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/apt/fedora/1/RPMS.macromedia/flash-plugin-6.0.79-2.i386.rpm
(hangs there doing nothing)


Expected Results:  The package should have downloaded and installed
correctly


Additional info:

yum, wget, lynx etc works with the http_proxy environment variable set.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2004-01-26 10:28:19 UTC

--httpproxy is not what you are expecting, but is a rather
old implementation based on the TIS proxy server. SO there's
little need to grok a shell envvar for a non-existent implementation.

I'd rather see a macro rather than a shell env, as rpm may
not always run underneath a shell.