[tex-live] Proxy info for install-tl?

[Jeff Blaine]

Thanks for the reply, Karl.

Karl Berry wrote:
>     Do I need to specify our proxy somewhere, 
> 
> Well, it's going to depend on how your network is set up.
> If you can't wget any url directly, then clearly you have to do
> something special.

I can wget any url directly because I have my proxy information
in .wgetrc :)

Where does one specify proxy information for whatever install-tl
is doing?

I've tried 3 other mirrors in the last hour.

unusable location 
ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/CTAN/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb, could not load 
any packages

unusable location http://sunsite.utk.edu/CTAN/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb, could 
not load any packages (tried this twice, same result)

unusable location http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb, could 
not load any packages

> But perhaps it is just about mirror.ctan.org's redirect being clobbered
> by your firewall or whatever, in which case it would work to try a
> particular mirror's url directly.  http://www.ctan.org/mirrors has the
> list; choose one close to you, then use
>   install-tl -location http://whatever/whatever
>   
>     or is just how things go (overloaded, etc) ?
> 
> No, it should work.
> 
>     install-tl:cairo> ./install-tl -v -v -v -v
> 
> FYI, only -v and -v -v make a difference; we don't plan to ever have
> more levels of verbosity.
> 
> karl
>