[Yum] Does yum have proxy support

[Justin Conover]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:03:34 -0500 (EST), Jim Wildman <jim at rossberry.com> wrote:
> > Does anybody know if yum has proxy support and if so where do i
> > specify the proxies. I run a net connection behind my college proxy
> from man yum....
> 
>  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/"
> >

If the box is always behind the proxy than I will set it in /etc/profile

export http_proxy="http://your_proxy:port"