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  1. Bug #181999
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 181999

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : Re: [ubuntu hardy alpha 3] update behind proxy - connections time out

Thanks for your bugreport.

I can reproduce this here too, it turns out that the bug is that sudo is much more strict about the environement variables and filters everything out that is not in a special (and very small) whitelist. This includes http_proxy.