Re: jhbuild, behind proxy compiling gnome-todo

On 22 January 2016 at 13:31, Tobias Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:41:35AM +0530, Jay Aurabind wrote:
>> Thank you Tobias. This looks like a complex hack.
> Yep. It's 2016 already.  We haven't mastered network proxies yet.
> And it's getting worse when they MITM you.
> Even worse, when they don't speak a weird TLS dialect.
> But it's getting better. The number of places you need to put the proxy
> information is getting lower...
>
>> I would like to put the line 'exec socat..' inside an 'if' so that it
>> is executed only if I have http_proxy or allies exported already.
>> Could also please tell me what needs to the corresponding line in the
>> else part?
> It's a bash script.  So you can try to make use of it's facilities.
> I think 'test -z "${http_proxy}"' could work, but I'm but my bash-fu is weak.
>
> Tell us your results!  We should expect more people behind (corporate) proxies
> and we should enable them to hack on GNOME.

Yep, I'll give it a try this weekend, and share the results.

Thanks!
>
> HTH,
>   Tobi



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Thanks and Regards,
Aurabindo J