[Yum] yum and proxy...

[Joseph Tate]

Michael Stenner wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:42:28AM -0500, Boex,Matthew W. wrote:
> 
>>seth,
>>
>>thanks.  i forgot... i did try that one too.  i just retried with
>>your proxy setting and got this error...
>>
>>Gathering package information from servers
>>Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.3 base
>>Error getting file 
>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/7.3/i3
>>86/headers/header.info
>>[Errno 4] IOError: [Errno socket error] nonnumeric port
> 
> 
> I know why this error happens.  It looks like the urllib in 1.5.2 does
> not deal well with user:pass in proxies.  In fact, it doesn't deal
> with them at all.  I don't know how about 2.2.  I don't have access to
> a password-based proxy (or do I?) to test on.  In any event, we're not
> likely to work on a solution for yum 1.x, so you'll need to either
> find a way to upgrade (I THINK this is discussed on this list in the
> archives) or not use a password-based proxy.
> 
> I will make password-based proxies a priority in urlgrabber TNV,
> although it may already Just Work.
> 
> 					-Michael

You do through OIT.  Check out 
http://www.oit.duke.edu/remote_access/proxy.html