Fetching seeds seems to go online and download lots of information

Asked by Onno Benschop

When I first launch the script it goes online and reports:

Fetching seeds for intrepid (this may take a moment) ...

My bug report is two-fold:
1. Why is it going online at all, are the seeds not already stored in the package cache?
2. Which proxy is this using and how do I configure it?

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Best Nick Barcet (nijaba) said :
#1

Seeds are unfortunately NOT part of the packages, but information that is only available online. maintenance-check absolutely need to fetch this information online at least once per release. The information will then be cached locally.

The command used to fetch the seed information is wget, so you can either configure the proxy in .wgetrc or set the http_proxy environment variable.

For more informations on what seeds are an how they are maintained: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeedManagement

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Onno Benschop (onno-itmaze) said :
#2

Thanks Nick Barcet, that solved my question.