[tex-live] Proxy info for install-tl?

Jeff Blaine jblaine at kickflop.net
Wed Oct 22 23:16:12 CEST 2008


Karl Berry wrote:
>     I can wget any url directly because I have my proxy information
>     in .wgetrc :)
> 
> Ah.  As Reinhard said, we specify our own wgetrc since there was no
> other rational way to control all the necessary parameters.  Sorry.
> Perhaps we should revisit that.
> 
>     Where does one specify proxy information for whatever install-tl
>     is doing?
> 
> A previous user (Torsten Schuetze) reported success with the following
> envvar settings, using the *_proxy environment variables that wget
> supports:
> 
> export http_proxy='http://sct2si1:xxxxxxxxx@10.4.102.12:8080'
> export ftp_proxy='http://sct2si1:xxxxxxxxx@10.4.102.12:8080'
> export TL_DOWNLOAD_ARGS='-c'
> 
> (The TL_DOWNLOAD_ARGS overrides our default wget cmdline.)
> 
> Let me know if problems.  I'll add something about this to the bugs page
> and/or documentation, at least.

Well, it's working now, but I am not exactly sure what solved
it.

It was either:

a) the env vars above
b) choosing to no longer use --location url_here

Thanks.


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