RE: How do I configure YUM to work through a proxy?

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:25:37 -0700
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> My Fedora FCr3 box is on a private network. So it has no
> direct access to the Internet. Up2date supports Proxy
> settings. But up2date now just front ends for YUM or APT.
> RedHat seems to prefer YUM. That's ok with me but I can't
> figure out how to configure YUM to work through a Proxy. I
> keep getting timeouts and "server not found" messages. I
> can't see any YUM settings to support a Proxy. I have put
> the Proxy settings into "up2date --config". No joy. It
> looks like APT supports Proxy servers but that Fedora FCr3
> does not yet support APT. There is a package to download and
> install (apt-0.5.15cnc6-12.r362.i386.rpm). So I downloaded
> and installed it. But there is no "mirrors" list. Can
> someone put me on the right track here?

I used yum directly to go through a proxy. I had to do something like this:

http_proxy=http://>:####/
HTTP_PROXY="$http_proxy"
export http_proxy HTTP_PROXY
ftp_proxy=http://>:####/
FTP_PROXY="$ftp_proxy"
export ftp_proxy FTP_PROXY

where <proxy> is the name of your proxy server and #### is the port.
Also, take a look at /etc/yum.conf and the repository files in
/etc/yum.repos.d/

Jeff

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