[Yum] Still hopeless on getting proxy to work

[seth vidal]

> 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. (Don't the variables stay set for the 
> duration of the script anyway, so that the calling of yum at 
> the end is affected by those variables? When I was trying to 
> use a local repository, it seemed to work that way -- I 
> needed to not use the proxy for that, and used the script as 
> it stands above to do so...)
> 

alright - let's take a step back:

1. what ver of yum is this?
2. are you using mirrorlists?

thanks
-sv