[Yum] Yum using a proxy to fetch?

[Joe Cooper]

Answered my own question after digging into the source.

yum uses urllib to handle its retrieval, thus 'standard' environment 
variables are supported for configuring a proxy.

So to retrieve through a proxy:

export http_proxy=http://proxy.address:3128

I've just tested this and it seems to work flawlessly.

Cool.  Yum is perfect once again.

Joe Cooper wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Does Yum have the ability to fetch its files through a proxy?  The 
> manpages don't turn up anything, but I'm hoping perhaps there is an 
> underlying URL getting module doing the fetching which might not be 
> documented in the yum pages...
> 
> Thanks!


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Joe Cooper <joe at swelltech.com>
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