Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 08:16 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 13:39 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> >>> Radu Radutiu wrote: >>> >>>> I am using 4-4.5. The proxy only allows port 80 and it works if I set >>>> the http_proxy environment variable but not the yum.conf proxy >>>> configuration. >>>> >>> can you post the output from : >>> rpm -q yum centos-yumconf >>> rpm -Vv centos-yumconf >>> >>> and also post your main yum.conf file here. >>> >>> - K >>> >> OK ... I think that we have now confirmed that the default yum behavior >> is not to enable the proxy information in it's config file until after >> it has already obtained the mirror information. >> >> This is a yum design issue and when it enables the proxy information. >> >> We are going to look to see if it is possible to make the mirrorlist >> selection happen through the proxy info provided by yum.conf ... in the >> meantime, please leave the proxy information in your ENV ... or pass it >> in when you issue the yum command. >> >> Thanks for you feedback in helping to make CentOS better. >> >> > > We have a new yum RPM that uses the proxy to select the mirrorlists if > one is defined in yum.conf or in a .repo file. > > The new yum is available here for testing: > > http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/yum-2.4.2-2.centos4.noarch.rpm > > (yum is a noarch RPM and this version should work on all centos-4 > arches) > > This will be released after it is tested and we know it works, so please > reply to this posting if you have a proxy server and yum was not working > for you before. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The new version works ok for me with the proxy configuration in yum.conf. Thanks, Radu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060220/73b10c3d/attachment-0005.html>