[arch-general] pacman's default download manager?

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 02.08.2012 11:20, schrieb Oon-Ee Ng:
>> On my personal machine I've long-since changed XferCommand, but on
>> doing a new install on another machine with the latest iso (behind a
>> proxy, which is a first for me), I figured out that a problem I was
>> having was linked to pacman NOT using wget by default. Is it just me,
>> or wasn't wget the default before?
>
> As Mantas correctly indicated, pacman does not use an external download
> manager by default, but it downloads files internally using curl.
>
> Why would you even change that behaviour? Using an external download
> manager only slows pacman down.

In my personal laptop's case - I use aria2c due to horrible network
communicativity (is that a word?) in various locations I regularly
visit.
>
>> Just to be clear, I was getting proxy related errors even after
>> changing /etc/wgetrc (as instructed in the beginner's guide).
>
> It's a wiki. Everyone can edit it, so everyone's misconceptions are in
> there.
>
And I've edited it to correct it, thank you all for your clarifications.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:38 PM, German Cabarcas <cmdr.chili at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> libcurl honors $http_proxy in environment (lowercase – not $HTTP_PROXY).
>
>
> Probably the problem comes with the use of sudo. In my case at work I use
> /etc/profile.d/ to get around the proxy, and configure sudo to preserve the
> proxy variables inherited from the file in /etc/profile.d/

In this specific case (new install behind a proxy) sudo doesn't yet
come into the picture as we're still running as root at that point.