[Yum] BUG REPORT:from fedoraforum

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 10:23 -0400, gary wrote:
> Yum,
> 
> An imporatant  BUG has appeared in yum version 2.3.2 that did not appear in 
> previous versions....  Yum is unusable to a huge number of people....  This 
> error appears constantly when trying to do an update:
> 
> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
> 
> a fedoraforum member found that if he places the following line in his 
> yum.conf it goes away:
> 
> proxy=http://192.168.0.1:87
> 
> We are sure it is a yum problem, because all our other internet programs, and 
> browsers work just fine without this time out/socket error....  And all 
> previous version of yum worked just fine....  This BUG has just been written 
> in the new version....
> 

If you have a bug, or if a series of people have a bug with yum in
fedora - please file a bug in red hat's bugzilla.
That's the best way to track these items.


thanks,
-sv