[chef] Re: Re: chef-client 3.0.0 and proxies

[Alex Kiernan < >]

On 13 Jun 2013 07:38, "Steven Danna" < "> > wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 6/12/13 2:51 AM, Alex Kiernan wrote:
> > The bit I can't spot is if there's any support for https_proxy and
> > no_proxy environment variables so gems work correctly - client.rb.erb
> > addresses the http_proxy one but not the other two.
>
> I believe you are correct and that we don't currently set the
> environment variables for these items.  I don't see an open bug for this
> issue in JIRA: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK but it does seem
> like a reasonable addition to the cookbook.
>

Thanks for the confirmation. I'll get a ticket opened and code up a pull request.

> One nice new feature, however, that will let you add this to your config
> easily without modifying the chef-client cookbook directly is the
> addition of an /etc/chef/client.d/ directory.  See the "Configuration
> Includes" section of the README for details.
>

Yeah I saw that, though I wasn't sure if that was just for config items or if you could inject arbitrary assignments. Actually now I stop and think about it there's no real difference is there.