curse you gmail! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andre "Osku" Schmidt <andre.osku.schmidt@googlemail.com> Date: Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [arch-general] AIF through proxy To: Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:

On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:19:18 +0200 "Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" <andre.osku.schmidt@googlemail.com> wrote:

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Hello Arch,

is anyone using the arch installer with squid proxy ? (or any other cache proxy)

i'm again so close my goal that it makes me nervous :)

- squid installed on the host machine, 192.168.0.35:3128 - vbox client in the same machine, network bridged

after login in the arch 2010.05 image (as vbox client) i do: # dhcpcd eth0 # export ftp_proxy='192.168.0.35:3128' # export http_proxy='192.168.0.35:3128' # pacman -Syu

and it works, it gets the db from the proxy cache, and also updates pacman from there  (i see it in the squid logs, and download speed). everything works ok.

then i tried to use the attached pacinst.aif file as profile for aif -p automatic installation and i get the attached aif.log... (it fails on getting the core.db.tar.gz)

no attachment?

hmm, i see them in my gmail client... yeah. im lazy :) but what ever, here: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/216751/ http://paste.pocoo.org/raw/216759/

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i cant attach any debug.log cause `aif -p automatic -c pacinst.aif -d -l` doesnt create any /var/log/aif/debug.log and `aif -d -l -p automatic -c pacinst.aif` can you try an absolute path for pacinst.aif?

same invalid URL scheme error

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just gives me the usage info, without any errors... and also the "Invalid URL scheme" errors that i see in tty7 are nowhere to find in /var/log/*

what i would do in a case like this is just monitor the output of 'pstree' to see which processes is running (ie wget, pacman, ..), then you can debug the networking issue from there.

oooh! you learn new things every day :) super tip. thanks! i got something, maybe pstree shows (when it hangs in url scheme error) aif /sbin/aif -p automatic -c /root/pacinst.aif -d -l  |--pacman --root /mnt --config /tmp/pacman.conf -Sy and as according to some forum post (and it seems to work only with this) i had to uncomment: XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget ... in /etc/pacman.conf to get pacman to work on the installer image console. and now looking at the /tmp/pacman.conf, this option is missing. but as i assumed (and test showed) the /tmp/pacman.conf gets newly generated on every aif run. so i cant edit that. what file could i edit to get that xfercommand in /tmp/pacman.conf (this looks even closer, OMG! /me is crossing fingers... :)