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UTMonkey

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Registered: 2016-11-28

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[SOLVED] arch-chroot behind a proxy

Hi,

Hope you can help, I have built a number of Arch boxes as part of a hobby, but this is the first time I have tried to do an installation of a box behind a proxy.

I have followed the Arch wiki's instructions regarding a new installation with the exception that I have set the relevant proxy variables (via export).

All starts to go well, the pacstrap command applies all the packages to the mounted drive. The difficulty occurs when I perform a pacman -syu within the arch-chroot environment I get the following error.

"Error: failed retrieving file [..] : the requested URL returned error 407"

407 tells me that the proxy requires authentication - which is correct but I have the proxy variables set the same way I had when I performed the pacstrap command.

Does Arch-Chroot look somewhere else for the proxy settings?

Thanks

Mark

Last edited by UTMonkey (2017-01-06 15:47:18)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] arch-chroot behind a proxy

Not a fix, just a workaround.

There's no need to be running pacman to install packages when you're in the chroot, just install them as part of the earlier pacstrap command which is working.

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teateawhy

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Re: [SOLVED] arch-chroot behind a proxy

As a workaround you can install packages directly to /mnt with:

pacman -r /mnt --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg -S package

I'm not sure, but if you want to use the chroot way, maybe you have to set environment variables again within the chroot.

UTMonkey

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Registered: 2016-11-28

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Re: [SOLVED] arch-chroot behind a proxy

Thanks for getting back to me and yes, when I added the pacman stuff to the pacstrap it all worked and I ended up with a working build.

I have had another issue crop out, but will investigate further and raise on the forum if I don't have any joy.

Thanks again

Last edited by UTMonkey (2017-01-06 13:48:06)