[Yum] Yum and proxy

[mbylander at legionaries.org]

Gary [mailto:gmerin at eurisko.com] wrote:

>Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 8:18 PM
>To: 'Yellowdog Updater, Modified'
>Subject: RE: [Yum] Yum and proxy
>
>
>I know this will probably sound very naïve, but I have three Dell 1850s
>recently installed with Fedora FC4 64bit; <snip> with the
>environment variable set as follows:
>
>http_proxy="http://this.proxy.com:8000/"
>
>Case of the variable name seems to be important.


Well, I have $http_proxy and $HTTP_PROXY defined (as well as $ftp_proxy and $FTP_PROXY), and still no luck... I'm wondering if Python is getting confused by the backlash in my "username", which according to M$ conventions is DOMAIN\USERNAME...

Mark