After confirming with Mathieu, I have verified that setting both
http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables will allow add-apt-
repository to work as expected.
Here is an example :
root@PreciseS-kdump:~# export http_proxy="http://10.1.1.3:3128";
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu Precise)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Louis Bouchard (louis-bouchard)
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: Incomplete => Fix Released
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janakaravi: please don't assign yourself to bugs unless you plan to work
on them and provide a patch for the issue.
Looks to me like add-apt-repository works just fine behind even a very
restrictive proxy; however there is a catch (but not something that can
be worked around in code, or that shoul
@janakaravi - please provide some evidence regarding how this is fixed.
For example a test you took to verify that comment #3 is in fact
correct. Thanks!
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => Incomplete
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Title:
add-apt-repository doesn't work behind a proxy [
So has it been fixed in 12.10 or 12.04? Please see the title of the bug
report!
If its fixed in 12.10, it would be good to backport this fix!
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** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Fix Committed
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => janakaravi (janakaravi)
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Setting up a proxy in Gnome should properly configure the https_proxy
environment variable. It should be visible in /etc/environment. Is that
not the case?
Furthermore, I think this is likely to have been fixed in 12.10 with
switching from libcurl to urllib to retrieve data for add-apt-
repository
** Summary changed:
- add-apt-repository doesn't work behind a proxy [Ubuntu 12.10]
+ add-apt-repository doesn't work behind a proxy [Ubuntu 12.04]
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