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authorXiang Fan <sfanxiang@gmail.com>2017-08-12 08:26:41 +0800
committerRichard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>2017-08-12 14:06:32 +0100
commita7d80522bd5bf3fe48e7e801ad8a939e2b13bf9c (patch)
tree2ebc41614e2d7dfb194e9786a10a982fa8dc541e /docs
parentae1154c24e094e25a279c8dcb305abb63f20a9c2 (diff)
docs: setting-the-proxy: update outdated contents
System-wide proxy settings are deprecated in 3afcfcd62ab979f493aee19e25344c559d199c82, and gpk-update-icon no longer exists.
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diff --git a/docs/setting-the-proxy.txt b/docs/setting-the-proxy.txt
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+++ b/docs/setting-the-proxy.txt
@@ -3,14 +3,9 @@ Setting the proxy:
The packagekitd daemon sets the network proxy for the packaging backend so that
packages can be downloaded when on a corporate or managed network.
-If the system-wide ProxyHTTP or ProxyFTP are set in PackageKit.conf then these
-are used by default. If these keys are blank or not present then the session
-proxy can be used. The session proxies are the values that are set in the
-network proxy configuration.
-
The session proxy is read by a session process that is started at login time,
-and then relayed to PackageKit. In GNOME, this is done by the gpk-update-icon
-process, which reads the settings from GConf, and executes SetProxy on
+and then relayed to PackageKit. In GNOME, this is done by gnome-software, which
+reads the settings from GSettings, and executes SetProxy on
org.freedesktop.PackageKit.
Note: this method is on the main interface, not a transaction interface. The