Pain with newest up2date RPM's

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:25:20PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> Would be a major lobbying effort to get every (relevant) internet-aware 
> program to agree using a single proxy configuration location + format of 
> course.. but would be well worth the effort I think. Ok Gnome2 has a 
> common place to speficy it but that's "hidden" in gconf instead of a plain 
> old textfile making it not-so-nice for things like wget etc. 

  the historical way has been the http_proxy environment variable.

> > I will investigate the proxy setting interface since I saw a bugzilla
> > bug about this.
> 
> Since up2date and rhn-applet are so closely related (at least seemingly so 
> to the user) it'd be nice if at least those would share the settings..

  we are trying to solve the issue. But one program runs as root,
the other under the user account, there have been security issues which
historically led to have separate file,

Daniel

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