The problem is staring you right in the face! If you’re trying to build Chromium OS from behind an Internet proxy, you’re going to struggle with make_chroot.sh. You need to set them up within the chroot, and that means setting them in the user’s profile script that gets sourced.

You used to be able to edit /etc/apt/apt.conf and assign a variable there, but not anymore. Set the http_proxy environment variable to your proxy and put it in your bashrc to make this setting persistent.

Proxytunnel is a program that connects stdin and stdout to a server somewhere on the network, through a standard HTTPS proxy. Getting it built seems to be pretty straight forward stuff.

If you have proxy settings set up in Internet Explorer already, then you can just run proxycfg -u and you’re done. It will add the registry keys for you. In the run dialog (Start -> Run) enter this command. It will flash the command prompt black screen and exit …

If you’re behind a proxy and you run that, you’ll get something like “the other end hung up” or “Cannot get remote repository information” because git is trying to connect using port 9418 by default. I found a few sites saying all you need to do is change git to http in the url and it will work, but that did not work for me. But it’s an easy fix. Change git’s http.proxy and you’re done. Here’s how: (replace my proxy host and port 8002 with your own)

You can do this globally for everyone, or just for yourself. There’s a hidden directory called “.subversion” in your home directory. Edit the servers file. Everything should be self explanatory. Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll find a global section. The proxy settings in there should cover it…

This has worked for me for as long as I can remember. To get around a blocked site, as long as i’m trying to view flash or other 2.0 stuff, I just translate english pages from spanish to english. What happens is any english (which is everything) just gets passed right on, but the results come from google instead of the target site.

Instead of typing the export string out each time and the emerge line too, I just recalled them from the history knowing that the last set of commands that started with those characters were the commands I wanted. If you didn’t know about these handy shortcuts, now you know, and knowing is have the battle. So when is that movie coming out anyway!!?