[Yum] Yum and proxy

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 16:25 +0100, mbylander at legionaries.org wrote:
> 
> 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...
> 

python's not - but your shell most likely is.

why not define the http_proxy stuff inside your yum.conf, rather than in
the shell?

-sv