proxy on rpm-ostree

Hi there! if you are here, probably are facing similar situation than me today! I installed Fedora Silverblue in a fresh VM, and I use a proxy to reach out Internet, so how to make the things work in Silverblue? I am going to enumerate the failed intents, before the final solution.

Failed intents

The first thing I thought was, well just setup the http in the system and that will make everything. Yeah! I did it, and I rebooted even several times, but no connection was happening through the proxy. It makes things like curl works from my terminal, but for any reason, not for rpm-ostree.

Secondly, I thought "well, maybe I have to indicate that information into the repo files". So I edited every .repo file at /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo and I realoaded rpm-ostree by

run0 systemctl daemon-reload; run0 systemctl restart rpm-ostreed.service

Even I tried to reboot, but still rpm-ostree was failing and the request didn't go through my proxy.

Later, I tried googling about it, and I found the below reference which was really helpful:

https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/issues/762#issuecomment-434256478

I did the change by: run0 systemctl edit --full rpm-ostreed.service, and adding the change below:

[Service]
Environment="http_proxy=http://<ip-for-my-proxy>:<port>"

I run run0 systemctl daemon-reload; run0 systemctl restart rpm-ostreed.service, but surprise, still not working! And I rebooted and nothing changed.

Final change

Finally, I realized that I could require another environment variable, and that was the key in case for it, so I added HTTPS_PROXY and I run run0 systemctl daemon-reload; run0 systemctl restart rpm-ostreed.service and finally, it started to work.

Wrap up!

If you are using a proxy in your system, and you want to use Silverblue or other rpm-ostree based distribution, you will need to add manually the http_proxy and HTTPS_PROXY to the rpm-ostreed.service configuration.

run0 systemctl edit --full rpm-ostreed.service

Add the environment variables:

[Service]
Environment="http_proxy=http://<ip-for-my-proxy>:<port>"
Environment="HTTPS_PROXY=http://<ip-for-my-proxy>:<port>"

Reload the configuration and restart the service by:

run0 systemctl daemon-reload
run0 systemctl restart rpm-ostreed.service

And finally upgrade your system:

run0 rpm-ostree upgrade