Bug 883562 - Support http proxy for retrieving root image
Summary: Support http proxy for retrieving root image
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 19
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Will Woods
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-04 21:33 UTC by Brad Hinson
Modified: 2015-02-17 14:35 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 14:35:57 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Brad Hinson 2012-12-04 21:33:21 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently root= points to install.img on fedoraproject.org:

root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Fedora/s390x/os/images/install.img

However, in order to reach this site, a proxy is required.  Please add support in dracut for http proxy via kernel commandline.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dracut-018-35.git20120510.fc17

How reproducible:
100%

Comment 1 Tom Huegel 2012-12-04 22:08:05 UTC
This looks like a documentation error not a programming error.
I added the "http_proxy=" parameter and it worked (at least as far as the boot goes).
The doc has the parameter as "proxy=" which doesn't work.            

 
            
http_proxy=http://myuser:mypw@companyproxy:proxyport                             
root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Fedora/s3 
90x/os/images/install.img

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2012-12-05 15:14:22 UTC
What documentation did you use?

Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2012-12-05 20:08:07 UTC
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options?rd=Anaconda/Options

I know wwoods has new docs available given the inst.* stuff he did in dracut, but I do not know where he's keeping them or what their state is.  So I guess I'll reassign.

Comment 4 Brad Hinson 2012-12-06 14:43:16 UTC
fyi, opened on behalf of tehuegel.  I wasn't aware of the http_proxy option, proxy listed as future update on http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/doc/boot-options.html#_proxy

Comment 5 Dan Horák 2012-12-06 14:48:53 UTC
I think setting the http_proxy variable works because dracut doesn't process it and it's propagated to environment where curl used for downloading the images understands it. So either the docs need update for http_proxy= or dracut should understand proxy=

Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 18:02:12 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

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