Arch Linux Template: pacman and QUPS

[Felix Krüger]

Hi,

the Tutorial to create an Arch Linux Template states:

>Archlinux package manager Pacman is a fine package mangers except
>that we could not find a way to configure it to use the Qubes Update Proxy Service (QUPS)
>that would comply with Qubes QUPS usage policy.
>
>If someone does find a way please post to the Qubes-Users or Devel google groups mailing list.

I can't find the documentation about QUPS and have no idea what it does,
but if it is just calling pacman with an http proxy set the http_proxy variable.
http_proxy='http://10.137.255.254:8082/' pacman -Syu
ftp_proxy does the same for ftp.

Felix

[Felix Krüger]

Ah,
This is already in use.
The XferCommand in /etc/pacman.conf is correct..
But the documentation under https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/archlinux/ needs to be updated.
Powerpill and Xyne's repos should not be necessary anymore.

Felix