[Yum] yum and white-listed based proxy

[James Antill]

"Conti Filippo" <fconti at sopragroup.com> writes:

> Hello,
> here we've got about ten servers running CentOS to host and
> development/test environment.
> All servers are on our corporate LAN and should access Internet trough
> corporate proxy.
> Proxy limits access and permits only white-listed HTTP sites (not sure
> about FTP protocol).
> I need to install software or just update servers, because yum gets
> software by dynamically generated list (a querystring in the URL) I
> don't know wich sites to add in the white-list (= no update/software.
> Is there a workaround for this problem ?
> Can I force yum to download packages just from some white-listed URLs ?

 Yes, you can list the ones you want in the baseurl and turn CentOS's
mirrorlist off.

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James Antill -- james at and.org