RE: Installing Packages with Proxy

["MAKAR,RAJBALA (A-Sonoma,ex1)" <rajbala_makar agilent com>]

Thanks for your response.
So how does up2date etc. work? I am writing a program using RPM which will perform remote upgrades. I am relying on RPM's feature to just get the header information from LAN for a package withpout having to download the entire package ... so users can choose which package is needed. So if proxy doesn't work, most of our customers would not be able to do the same. So I have to have a separate program for first downloading the file and then have RPM just install it. That would make it much less efficient. Does anyone have any clues on how to acoomplish this easily?
Thanks,
Rajbala Makar

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:jbj@redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:03 AM
To: rpm-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Installing Packages with Proxy


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

-- 
Jeff Johnson	ARS N3NPQ
jbj@redhat.com (jbj@jbj.org)
Chapel Hill, NC



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