[Yum] help needed in yum installation

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 09:15 +0530, Sumesh P.T. wrote:
> Thanks, I did include proxy like this in /etc/yum.conf: 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
> # in /etc/yum.repos.d 
> proxy=http://172.16.1.1:3128
> export http_proxy=http://172.16.1.1:3128/

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> it started working. I cud install yumex. then i tried some updates and
> installations using yumex. some worked. some are still showing th
> error like this:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> 19:56:53 : Trying other mirror.
> 19:56:53 : Failure getting
> http://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2: 
> 19:56:53 :   --> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 403: Server: squid/2.5.STABLE4 
> 19:56:53 :   --> Mime-Version: 1.0 
> 19:56:53 :   --> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:34:50 GMT 
> 19:56:53 :   --> Content-Type: text/html 
> 19:56:53 :   --> Content-Length: 1239 
> 19:56:53 :   --> Expires: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:34:50 GMT 
> 19:56:53 :   --> X-Squid-Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED 0 
> 19:56:53 :   --> X-Cache: MISS from jncproxy.jncasr.ac.in 
> 19:56:53 :   --> Proxy-Connection: close 
> 19:56:53 :   --> 
> 19:56:53 : Trying other mirror.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> and hence fail. Does it mean that it succeds in gettin downloads from
> some repos but no from some ohters? In that case should i include
> somethin like this in /etc/yum.conf? 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [repository]
> proxy=""
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> Or any other options?

I'd suggest talking to the folks who maintain the proxy and find out why
it is nixing certain sites but not others.

-sv