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. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq