ftp-proxy does not work

[Eric Brunson]

What happens if you use:

smart config --set ftp-proxy=ftp://proxy.ourproxyhost.de:80


René Matthäi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using smart 0.41 and it doesn't work with our proxy. I figured out 
> that maybe that is because rpm doesn't work with my proxy either. 
> Apparently rpm doesn't take my global proxy settings into account 
> (http_proxy, ftp_proxy). That's what I used to tell smart explicitly to 
> use a proxy ($http_proxy and $ftp_proxy are set AND WORK with all other 
> programs, including wget ftp://....):
>
> smart config --set ftp-proxy=http://proxy.ourproxyhost.de:80
>
> Yes, our proxy accepts ftp requests by a http request on port 80 (and 
> this is the only way it works and works perfectly, apart from 
> smart/rpm).
>
> There IS an proxy option in smart and rpm, but none of them seems to 
> work. smart just sticks at the point where trying to download from the 
> first ftp-server saying " [0%]", and rpm doesn't do anything further 
> either.
>
> Do you know how I tell rpm/smart to use the proxy in my case?
>
> René
>