Re: Installing Packages with Proxy

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:57:49AM -0600, rajbala_makar@agilent.com wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> Has anyone installed rpm packages via a proxy server? I am trying to install
> packages through a proxy but it fails. If I set the ftpproxy ftpport
> httpproxy and httpport in the .rpmmacros file,
> it completely overlooks it and proceeds without the proxy and fails to
> connect. If I pass those
> parameters on the command line, it seems to go through the proxy but gives
> one of following errors:
> 
> 1) Package does not seem to be rpm file
> 2) Bad response received from server
> 3) File does not exist on server. (If I use an ordinary browser, I can
> easily download the file and it does exist.)
> 
> I am using rpm version 4.0.2 and tried to download many packages freely
> available on the internet but none of them succeeded.
> 
> Has anyone seen similar problems? Could someone advise on how to use the RPM
> proxy support?

I doubt that the TIS firewall proxy support implemented in rpm is of
any use to anyone anymore.

FWIW Add --ftpdebug and you should see what rpm is putting on the wire.

73 de Jeff

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