[lxc-users] lxc-create not working behind proxy

[Tamas Papp]

On 10/09/2014 05:24 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> Hey Tamas!
>
> On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 16:59 +0200, Tamas Papp wrote:
>> Try this one:
>> Export http_proxy="http://proxy:port/"
>> If debootstrap uses it, then it should work.
>> Also don't forget to apply apt settings in container.
> Not having tried this myself, that comment just suddenly raised a
> question in my mind.  Does this create an chicken and egg situation?  I
> know debootstrap will use it to try and build the container but does the
> template then make any attempts to use the apt settings in the container
> during the creation process before they can be tweaked?  Seems like that
> could create a problem where we're chrooting into a container rootfs.
> I'm now wondering if the Fedora and CentOS templates I maintain could
> have a problem there.  I may have to set up a proxy to test against,
> myself, for yum.

Probably not, it has to be set manually, though I've never tried that.

tamas