New Authorization for Business Products

Novell is forcing business customers to convert their SUSE accounts
to Novell accounts until Dec 31, 2005. When the Novell accounts are
active, YaST Online Update uses a new server https://you.novell.com/update

A typical download/patch comes from:
https://USERNAME:[email protected]/update/i386/update/SUSE-CORE/9/rpm/i586/yast2-packagemanager-2.9.67-0.3.i586.patch.rpm

/etc/fou4s.conf now needs (the next fou4s version should have this example):
Server=https://you.novell.com/update

But that is not enough: fou4s in the most recent version does not use
the https_proxy environment variable, so two fixes are needed:

# diff -U3 /usr/sbin/fou4s-0.13.1 /usr/sbin/fou4s
--- /usr/sbin/fou4s-0.13.1      2005-05-31 23:51:14.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/sbin/fou4s     2005-12-05 15:54:25.063959616 +0100
@@ -586,6 +586,7 @@
                        --proxy)
                                if [[ $2 == http://*([^\/])/ ]] ; then
                                        export http_proxy=$2
+                                       export https_proxy=$2
                                        export ftp_proxy=$2
                                        if [[ $USERSYNCPROXY -eq 1 ]] ; then
                                                RSYNC_PROXY=$2
@@ -2609,6 +2610,7 @@
                                VERBOSE=`checkOption "$value" $key $VERBOSE range 0 3` ;;
                        Proxy)
                                export http_proxy=`checkOption "$value" $key $http_proxy`
+                               export https_proxy=`checkOption "$value" $key $https_proxy`
                                export ftp_proxy=`checkOption "$value" $key $ftp_proxy` ;;
                        AcceptPreinstallInfo)
                                ACCEPTPREINSTALLINFO=`checkOption "$value" $key $ACCEPTPREINSTALLINFO` ;;
#

The next problem is that the newest wget version for SLES9 (1.9.1-45.12)
does not use the https_proxy variable correctly, but that is a bug I will
have to file at Novell's bugzilla. w3m and curl have no problems downloading
a file via the proxy set in https_proxy.

Kevin
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