yum problem

[Michael Schwendt]

On 18/06/07, rodrigo morales wrote:
> I have the following problem
>
>  sudo yum update
>  Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>  Setting up Update Process
>  Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-7&arch=i386
> error was
>  [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Conexi\xc3\xb3n rehusada')>
>  Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fedora
>
>  I am under proxy  and not like forming it, in the page it leaves:
>
> http_proxy=ip_proxy:port
> export http_proxy

Where in the Yum documentation did you find a section that says you
could add these two lines exactly like this?

> but when adding these lines give the following error me
>
> sudo yum update
> CRITICAL:yum.cli:Config Error: Parsing file failed: File contains parsing
> errors: file:///etc/yum.conf
>         [line 17]: 'export http_proxy'
>
> as I can solve this problem