[Yum] Proxy settings are ignored

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:11 +0100, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using yum 2.6.0 on a Fedora Core 5 system. As you can see, my
> proxy settings are there:
> 
>     [jwi at stujwi ~]$ set | grep proxy
>     http_proxy=http://httpprox.software-ag.de:8080/
>     https_proxy=http://sslprox.software-ag.de:443/
> 
> They also seem to be right:
> 
>     [jwi at stujwi ~]$ wget http://fedora.redhat.com/
>     --10:56:55--  http://fedora.redhat.com/
>                => `index.html'
>     Resolving httpprox.software-ag.de... 10.20.40.6, 10.20.40.5
>     ... (works fine)
> 
> But yum doesn't work:
> 
>     [jwi at stujwi ~]$ sudo yum update
>     Password:
>     Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>     Running "config" handler for "installonlyn" plugin
>     Yum Version: 2.6.0
>     COMMAND: yum
>     Installroot: /
>     Setting up Update Process
>     Setting up repositories
>     core                                                                 [1/3]
>     Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
>     Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> 
> tcpdump shows, that the proxy is not being used, but an attempt to
> contact the HTTP server directly is made.
> 
> 
> Any ideas?

define the proxy in your yum.conf

-sv