[packagekit] PackageKit + GNOME Network Proxy feature request

[Richard Hughes]

On 21 June 2010 20:29, Dave Carlson <thecubic at thecubic.net> wrote:
> Thinking I had no proxy, a SetProxy(null,null) was sent to packagekitd and
> wiped out any hope of proxy actually working.  Could packagekitd be adapted
> to (1) force a proxy from the conf file, and/or (2) not set proxy unless
> GNOME has a manual setting, and/or (3) be adapted someday to include
> socks/PAC support? (thinking a gjs+pacparser for PACs, the socks support can
> be wrapper-based)

Sorry for the long delay, I've finally cleared enough of my "MUST DO
TODAY" list and am now getting back to feature requests. :-)

I've just added the following to git master:

commit b106454dfbd27056c891a42ea25172ebdbb2d656
Author: Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 7 11:32:39 2010 +0100

    If either of ProxyHTTP are set in PackageKit.conf then silently
ignore the user proxy setting. Fixes rh#604317

Long term I think we need to teach PK about .pac files but I think
that relies on the backends picking up support first.

Richard.