On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:37:07 +0100
Martin Fuzzey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Package: emdebian-tools
> Version: 1.5.2
> Severity: normal
> 
> emsetup fails to get packages when behind a proxy specified in the http_proxy 
> env variable.

Actually, it is apt-cross that is getting and providing the data for
emsetup - emsetup itself is not doing any network activity.

Merged with the existing apt-cross bug.

> tcpdump shows the proxy is not used (a direct connection attempt to 
> www.emdebian.org is made)
> 
> Plain apt-get and aptitude DO work in this case.
> 
> If the proxy is set in /etc/apt/apt.conf all works.

That gives a chance that the bug could be fixable in apt-cross before
apt-cross is migrated to C++ or replaced by apt support.

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