[Yum] Problems using yum 2.0.7 on Linux redhat 9

[Colin Bannister]

>>> Colin.Bannister at nottingham.ac.uk 19/10/2004 16:19:23 >>>
>>>> skvidal at phy.duke.edu 19/10/2004 15:39:45 >>>
>On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 15:38 +0100, Colin Bannister wrote:
>> >>>> skvidal at phy.duke.edu 19/10/2004 15:30:50 >>>
>> >
>> >> Yes, I've set http_proxy.
>> >
>> >what have you set it to?
>> >
>> >-sv
>> 
>> # echo $http_proxy
>> 
>> wwwcache.nottingham.ac.uk:3128
>> 
>> This setting has allowed the machine in question to do
>> a 'yum update' in the past, but after a recent package
>> installation that used 'yum' failed, I have not been able to
>> use yum again.

I have been working on a Fedora Core 1 Linux installation, and
have had similar problems with 'yum update' with
http_proxy  = wwwcache.nottingham.ac.uk:3128

HOWEVER, if I set it to http://wwwcache.nottingham.ac.uk:3128
all seems well.  It does seem that the yum python scripts assume
that the URL for the proxy has all the bits!

I wouldn't mind betting that when I did get it to work, I had set the
http_proxy in its complete form, but forgot this later.

I hope this observation might stop others from similar errors.

Colin


Dr. Colin Bannister
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Cripps Computing Centre
Tel: 0115 9513326
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e-mail: colin.bannister at nottingham.ac.uk


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