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| author | Mike McQuaid | 2017-11-30 14:05:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Mike McQuaid | 2017-11-30 14:05:06 +0000 |
| commit | 022303f96c6226001308b994ad68b460f5df579b (patch) | |
| tree | 818f329e4cfcfe55af54be2147ac9c75d0f9e029 /Library | |
| parent | 3f7e63a24c7a449eeed3d5dcee1f209b924d58cb (diff) | |
| download | brew-022303f96c6226001308b994ad68b460f5df579b.tar.bz2 | |
Unify proxy documentation.
Specify under the list of environment variables how to set each of those
that we passthrough and use.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Library/Homebrew/manpages/brew.1.md.erb | 24 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/manpages/brew.1.md.erb b/Library/Homebrew/manpages/brew.1.md.erb index 71d93f120..4c63d57be 100644 --- a/Library/Homebrew/manpages/brew.1.md.erb +++ b/Library/Homebrew/manpages/brew.1.md.erb @@ -235,20 +235,26 @@ can take several different forms: * `HOMEBREW_VERBOSE`: If set, Homebrew always assumes `--verbose` when running commands. -## USING HOMEBREW BEHIND A PROXY + * `http_proxy`: + Sets the HTTP proxy to be used by `curl`, `git` and `svn` when downloading + through Homebrew. + + * `https_proxy`: + Sets the HTTPS proxy to be used by `curl`, `git` and `svn` when downloading + through Homebrew. -Homebrew uses several commands for downloading files (e.g. `curl`, `git`, `svn`). -Many of these tools can download via a proxy. It's common for these tools -to read proxy parameters from environment variables. + * `ftp_proxy`: + Sets the FTP proxy to be used by `curl`, `git` and `svn` when downloading + through Homebrew. -For the majority of cases setting `http_proxy` is enough. You can set this in -your shell profile, or you can use it before a brew command: +## USING HOMEBREW BEHIND A PROXY +Use the `http_proxy`, `https_proxy` and/or `ftp_proxy` documented above. For example for an unauthenticated HTTP proxy: - http_proxy=http://<host>:<port> brew install foo + export http_proxy=http://<host>:<port> -If your proxy requires authentication: +And for an authenticated HTTP proxy: - http_proxy=http://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port> brew install foo + export http_proxy=http://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port> ## SEE ALSO |