Bug 431

Summary:	Instructions for using a proxy server
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Anton Emmerfors <anton>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) <g2boojum>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Anton Emmerfors 2002-01-30 06:13:23 UTC

In section 10 (before code listing 18) it would be useful to indicate how to 
use a proxy if this is required. Perhaps something along the lines of:

--
If your Internet access is going through a proxy server exporting the 
environement variable http_proxy will help. The format is http_proxy=http://
[<user>:<pass>@]<proxyname>:<port>. E.g.

# export http_proxy=http://john:secret@proxy.name.here:3128
--

Comment 1 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-06 14:35:35 UTC

Proxy info should be set in /etc/make.conf.  I've modifed the standard make.conf,
added a note to the build docs, and modified bootstrap.sh so that the proxy
values in /etc/make.conf actually get used for the bootstrap.  At the moment
the only visible change will be bootstrap.sh.  The site needs to be updated 
for the doc change to be seen, and /etc/make.conf will be updated with the
next version of portage.

Comment 2 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-15 21:05:40 UTC

Trying to clean out the docs-depricated so that I can close the catergory ...