yum has problems with proxy
Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
bochecha at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 13 09:07:21 UTC 2009
Hi,
> > On my XO, I am a heavy user of yum. The communications setup at
> > my home goes through a proxy to reach the internet. I have
> > empirically seen that when told to go from the XO to the net
> > through a proxy, opera' handles "https:" URLs correctly, whereas
> > 'yum' does not.
>
> Have you tried:?
>
> # export https_proxy=http://yourproxy:port/
> # yum ...
Last time I checked (was Fedora 10), yum didn't use the env var for proxies.
Instead, you should modify the /etc/yum.conf file. Add the following :
proxy=http://your_proxy/
proxy_username=userxxx
proxy_password=passxxx
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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
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