[Haskell-cafe] cabal-install

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Serguey Zefirov <sergueyz at gmail.com> writes:

> Why there is no switch to turn off any use of proxy in cabal-install?
> Or to supply username/password pair in command line.
>
> I have a strange situation: wget works like charm ignoring proxy (I
> downloaded Cabal and cabal-install to investigate the problem using
> wget), Firefox works like charm igoring proxy, and only cabal cannot
> access anything, because it follows proper proxy protocol and our
> proxy requires username and password.

"Ignoring proxy"?

> And I don't know of proper way to supply them through http_proxy
> environment variable.

export http_proxy="http://${username}:${password}@${proxy_url}"

> PS
> And while I am on it, I'd like to suggest that cabal-install should
> read common options like credentials from environment or configuration
> file.

Which credentials?  I thought that the proxy stuff was how the system
connected to the net, etc. and cabal-install just used the system's
connection... (I could be wrong however).

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