[Yum] Proxy Support for YUM

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 10:20, Stephen More wrote:
> According to the man page for yum there is some proxy support:
> 
>        Proxy configuration
>               If  you  would like to use a proxy with yum you can simply set a
>               shell environment variable of http_proxy. Set it to the url  for
>               your proxy.  Ex: "http://your_proxy:port/"
> 
> My proxy requires a username and a password. Will yum work with my proxy or will there need to be
> some sort of coding required to update yum ?
> 
> 

Unless your proxy configuration is very odd you should be able to use:

http://username:password@your_proxy:port/ in the http_proxy variable.

try it.

see if it works, let me know.

i don't have a proxy I can really test against so..

-sv