Re: [gnome-love] jhbuild, behind proxy compiling gnome-todo

[Tobias Mueller <muelli cryptobitch de>]

Hi!

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:41:35AM +0530, Jay Aurabind wrote:
> Thank you Tobias. This looks like a complex hack.
Yep. It's 2016 already.  We haven't mastered network proxies yet.
And it's getting worse when they MITM you.
Even worse, when they don't speak a weird TLS dialect.
But it's getting better. The number of places you need to put the proxy
information is getting lower...

> I would like to put the line 'exec socat..' inside an 'if' so that it
> is executed only if I have http_proxy or allies exported already.
> Could also please tell me what needs to the corresponding line in the
> else part?
It's a bash script.  So you can try to make use of it's facilities.
I think 'test -z "${http_proxy}"' could work, but I'm but my bash-fu is weak.

Tell us your results!  We should expect more people behind (corporate) proxies
and we should enable them to hack on GNOME.

HTH,
  Tobi