[Maverick] kpackagekit won't honor apt proxy setings

Does it work if you set the proxy settings in KDE?
I've tested with KDE proxy settings and it works quite well.

@Daniel: Idon't know if kpackagekit would honor or not a generic HTTP proxy setting, but it isn't the point: I don't have any generic HTTP proxy and don't want to setup any such thing. I have a specific apt-cacher that apt-get, aptitude and kpackagekit *MUST* use (because of Internet bandwidth issues) but that can't be used i.e. by a browser, so I cannot define a "proxy setting in KDE".

Kind regards.

@Daniel the issue here is not about generic http proxy. it concern specific apt proxy called apt-cacher. which is a server that intercepts apt requests and downloads them to a cache so that anyone within the lan who needs such packages would not need to download it from the internet. All I have to do is add the proxy detail to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy synaptic package manager also supports it under settings/preference/networking kpackagekit does not have support for it at all and its a very big deal breaker for many within large organisations who use Kubuntu.

KPackageKit is actually able to use apt-cacher BUT the config _must_ go into kde proxy settings or /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf.

Not the best solution for sure, but I have fixed this issue now it just need a new PackageKit package.

BTW
Instead of having that /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ file, with this content
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://localhost:3142";

The work around is to set the kde proxy or PackageKit proxy to:

http://localhost:3142

I added the proxy settings to etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf and kpackagekit still ignores it when trying to download packages. here is my /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf tell me if I am doing anything wrong

can you kill packagekitd and try again? It's the only way to re-read that info

Looks like this is fixed upstream (d1a434a)
Patch might need to be included in the Ubuntu package.

This bug was fixed in the package packagekit - 0.6.8-0ubuntu4

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packagekit (0.6.8-0ubuntu4) natty; urgency=low

  * Add 07_apt_proxy.patch from upstream
    Fixes LP: #633008
    "kpackagekit won't honor apt proxy setings"
  * Add 06_aptcc_crash.patch from upstream
    Fixes http://bugs.kde.org/253930
    KPackageKit crashed after clicking on "Check for new updates"
 -- Jonathan Riddell <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:10:06 +0000

Uploaded to maverick-proposed with patches for this bug and http://bugs.kde.org/253930

Upstream commits:
http://gitorious.org/packagekit/packagekit/commit/05ad4000c1110d49d1530db9a0589dd02147744b and http://gitorious.org/packagekit/packagekit/commit/41b89ee7febac04fa241acf59097cfa8d7835087

TEST CASE: set apt proxy, old version will not download from it, new version will

TEST CASE for second patch: needs broken mirror to recreate crash

Does this mean that those of us on Maverick can get this fix by enabling Maverick-proposed repository. also which particular package contains this fix because I just enabled maverick proposed on my laptop and I did not see any kpackagekit related update

Accepted packagekit into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I've tested the package on maverick-proposed and it works with apt-cacher.

This bug was fixed in the package packagekit - 0.6.8-0ubuntu3.1

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packagekit (0.6.8-0ubuntu3.1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * Add 07_apt_proxy.patch from upstream
    Fixes LP: #633008
    "kpackagekit won't honor apt proxy setings"
  * Add 06_aptcc_crash.patch from upstream
    Fixes http://bugs.kde.org/253930
    KPackageKit crashed after clicking on "Check for new updates"
 -- Jonathan Riddell <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:10:06 +0000