Bug 125917 (AnacondaProxy)
| Summary: | RFE: Proxy support for http/ftp | |||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Ed K <ed> | |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Chris Lumens <clumens> | |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | ||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | low | |||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | ask, barryn, dev, djuran, drussell, jfenal, jplans, marius.andreiana, mark, meherenow, moose, nphilipp, Petaris, ral, saalwaechter, schasj, simon.andrews, stephan.duehr, tao | |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature | |
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | All | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | anaconda-13.0-1 | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | ||
| Clone Of: | ||||
| : | 501496 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-07-01 20:56:18 UTC | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
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| Bug Depends On: | ||||
| Bug Blocks: | 141988, 150225, 501496 | |||
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Description
Ed K
2004-06-14 00:26:40 UTC
A large chunk of it is someone writing the code, especially for the loader (first stage) of the install process. Can't some code be taken from another distribution? It's implemented almost everywhere. There are many people in company/university networks that have no direct acces to the internet, so it would be nice if this worked in core3. urlgrabber has support for HTTP and FTP proxies, which makes things on the second stage a lot more simple, though that doesn't buy us anything in the loader. I've seen the option in Mandriva... it's a real shame we don't have this functionality in Fedora. Any news or movement on this RFE? It already was there in RHL 6.0: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-6.0-Manual/install-guide/doc046.html +1 for proxy support I just hit a bug while installing rawhide via internet: I'm in a network currently where ftp traffice is routed directly to the internet, but http traffic is only allowed via proxy. So I tried to install rawhide via ftp. That worked in general -- but then I activated "Fedora Extras" in the package selection screen. It seems anaconda then tried to connect to a http server, naturally failed, and forced me to re-start the installation process. :-( I tried a light kickstart file with simply: ------------------------- %pre http_proxy="http://myproxy:80" export http_proxy ----------------------- that I place on a local install server, intending that to get me extras. Problem with this seems to be that Anaconda skips the additional repo section of the installer when it detects kickstart. I tried a light kickstart file with simply: ------------------------- %pre http_proxy="http://myproxy:80" export http_proxy ----------------------- that I place on a local install server, intending that to get me extras. Problem with this seems to be that Anaconda skips the additional repo section of the installer when it detects kickstart. scratch the kickstart approach. It appears the environment variable does not get picked up by anaconda; I suppose its too late w/ as Anaconda is already running. See the quick Anaconda proxy patch over here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213109 Suggest marking this as a duplicate of 14988 "anaconda should query for proxy" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=141988 Adding FutureFeature keyword to RFE's. *** Bug 461471 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 479452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 505118 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** (In reply to comment #5) > It already was there in RHL 6.0: > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-6.0-Manual/install-guide/doc046.html > This feature existed in F10 and prior, AFAIK, albeit one had to wait until the initial connection attempt timed out before being offered a chance to enter proxy information. I found that attempting to use the Network Install CD with F11 is futile when behind a proxy server. Please restore the F10 capability and provide a way to enter the proxy information before attempting connection to the repositories. This should finally (finally!) be fixed in the next build of anaconda for F13. It won't be fixed in F12, and probably has a couple other bugs as well, but as soon as we start doing rawhide composes pulling from F13, it should be testable. |