[OS X TeX] tlmgr and proxies

[Dr. Clea F. Rees]

On Thu 11th Sep, 2008 at 11:03, Michael Murray seems to have written:

> Thanks for that.  It looks like I can setup up a .wgetrc in my directory with 
> commands like
>
> http_proxy =
> http_user =
> http_password =
>
>
> I don't seem to have wget though. I'll install that tonight when I am away 
> from proxy servers.

tlmgr uses the binary installed in
/usr/local/texlive/2008/tlpkg/installer/wget/ with the universal-darwin
suffix. You need to persuade that version to use your config or else
change the config file it already uses (if security isn't an issue).

- cfr