Setting a proxy for YUM in a crontab

[Paul Howarth]

Matthew Benjamin wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:41 +0300, Kimmo Koivisto wrote:
>>On Friday 08 April 2005 22:38, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone know how to set a proxy for yum, if you are setting yum 
>>>to run as a cronjob. I set an export 
>>>http_proxy="http://proxy.4.me:3128" in the .bashrc, however this is 
>>>probably only valid when I login as root.
>>>
>>>mB.
>>
>>Add your proxy definitions to the /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
> 
> 
> Better still, add it to /etc/yum.conf (see "man yum.conf" if you're
> using the yum 2.2 package from updates-released). You will no longer
> then need to set it in the environment.
> 
> Paul.
 >
> I tried it didn't work, maybe my syntax is wrong I put in 
> 
>  proxy="http://my.proxy.com:3128"
> 
> Is that correct?

I think there are a number of problems here unfortunately.

First, you don't need (or want) the quote marks:
proxy=http://my.proxy.com:3128

Secondly, yum 2.2.0's proxy support is broken:
https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=407

If you want to try 2.2.1, I'll have RPMs for it at:
http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/
until an official update comes out. This still has issues, but at least 
can be made to work. Specifying repos by "mirrorlist" is broken, but if 
you specify your own mirrors using "baseurl" then it handles the proxy 
properly.

Paul.