317987 – g-cpan and proxy

Bug 317987 - g-cpan and proxy

Summary: g-cpan and proxy

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Robin Johnson

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Reported:	2010-05-01 09:26 UTC by Juergen Rose
Modified:	2011-01-24 08:08 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Juergen Rose 2010-05-01 09:26:03 UTC

G-cpan seems to detect proxy settings and then write these settings to
~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm :

root@lynx:/root(11)# grep -i proxy .cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm 
  'ftp_proxy' => q[http://10.101.10.254:3128],
  'http_proxy' => q[http://10.101.10.254:3128],
  'no_proxy' => q[],

If I then change the location of my laptop to an other network g-cpan still tries to access the proxy 10.101.10.254.
I can solve this problem by removing ~/.cpan after changing the network, but it would be more convenient, if there is no proxy entry in ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm.




Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2011-01-24 08:08:33 UTC

No, detecting the proxy is the best action here.
You should run it with ftp_proxy='' http_proxy='' when generating the config, so that it ignores your proxy settings.