[Yum] Still hopeless on getting proxy to work

[mbylander at legionaries.org]

Seth Vidal wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: seth vidal [mailto:skvidal at linux.duke.edu]
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 8:38 PM
> To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
> Subject: Re: [Yum] Still hopeless on getting proxy to work
> 
> 
> 
> > Yum had a relatively long pause before it gave me the same 
> > old error messages as usual after modifying the script. But 
> > after running it once, it returns to instantly giving me the 
> > error messages. > 
> alright - let's take a step back:
> 
> 1. what ver of yum is this?
> 2. are you using mirrorlists?
> 

1. yum-2.4.1-1.fc4
2. no. I currently have it set to use the (slow but reliable) fedora.redhat.com mirror. wget is able to use the proxy and download the repomd.xml file, but yum is not.

Mark