[Yum] Proxy Support for YUM

Stephen More mores at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 3 13:00:36 UTC 2003


Yes, that config works fine.

Thanks
Stephen More

--- seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


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