[CentOS] Http proxy set in yum.conf is not working for the new yum mirrorlist system
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Fri Feb 17 13:22:57 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>It seems that the new update system does not consider the proxy option
>>set yum.conf. After installing centos-yumconf-4-4.4.noarch.rpm together
>>with the new yum packages, I was no longer able to use yum. In my case
>>HTTP access is allowed only through a proxy. The proxy URL is configured
>>in yum.conf.
>>If I set the environment variable http_proxy from the shell I start yum,
>>everything works.
>>If I comment out the mirrorlist lines in CentOS-Base.repo yum is working
>>fine without setting http_proxy environment variable (using the proxy
>>defined in yum.conf).
>>Anyone else seeing this or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>
>
> Try it with the 4-4.5 as it uses port 80 instead of port 81 ... which
> might make it better.
that will fix this problem here.
>
> To be honest, I don't know if the mirrorlist selects will use the proxy
> settings of yum or not.
it will work fine. the issue here seems to be the :81 / :80 issue.
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