[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 06/12] Hob: allow users to setup the proxies

[Barros Pena, Belen]

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay in commenting on this.

I've checked our discussions about the proxy functionality, and it looks
like we never reached an agreement on how to implement this feature. It
was suggested to configure the proxy through sites.conf, and then Scott
Garman replied pointing out that the "the proxy situation is a mess under
Linux. This is likely to be a non-trivial problem
(http://www.yoctoproject.org/blogs/sgarman/2011/proxy-problem)". After
that, the discussion died out.

We could review the implementation and provide some suggestions. Would
that be useful?

Cheers

Belen 

On 20/03/2012 13:27, "Wang, Shane" <shane.wang at intel.com> wrote:

>Joshua Lock wrote on 2012-03-20:
>
>> 
>> 
>> On 16/03/12 08:10, Shane Wang wrote:
>>> This patch is to set os.environ to allow users to set the environment
>> variables for http_proxy, https_proxy and ftp_proxy.
>> 
>> I think we need to be careful about implementing this functionality, so
>> I have two suggestions
>> 1) As far as I can tell the proxy settings will not be remembered
>> between runs of the Hob, I think they probably should be.
>Yes.
>
>> 2) If the user already has some or all of the proxy settings set in
>> their environment we should probably detect those and display them
>> appropriately in the GUI.
>OK, will investigate and have a try.
>
>> 
>> Are their any design documents for this dialogue?
>No.
>
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Joshua
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