On my network at work I have to use a proxy server to get access to the outside internet. When I put the proxy server in the make.conf, or the make.globals file nothing changed. I had to go into the /etc/wget/wgetrc file and add the proxy to the http, and ftp proxy lines, and uncomment out the use proxy line. The solution may be as simple as just adding the argument to use proxies to the call to wget, but I don't know.
Ben, care to tackle?
I've tested with portage-1.9.13 and 1.9.10 and used wget, prozilla, and lukemftp FETCHCOMMANDS with all each version. No matter what I do my proxy was never hit. It appears that wget requires the env variable to be $http_proxy and not $HTTP_PROXY. So we can either change this in make.conf or add http_proxy="$HTTP_PROXY" to make.conf etc. lukemftp and prozilla don't seem to like the proxy regardless, not suprizing. I say we just make it a known caveat that if you want to use a proxy you're stuck with wget unless you wish to to some mojo to get around it. Transparent proxies should work fine regardless.
This doesn't belong to me. This should go to whomever maintains the default make.conf stuff.
Not really my field as well, as I have never touched make.conf on CVS. If still here in a while, and I have time, Ill have a look.
Should be fixed as of a couple months ago.
