[CentOS] New update problems

Wed Mar 15 22:49:04 UTC 2006
William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>

that worked.  I had to whitelist the servers in DG and it works fine 
behind the transparent proxy..:)

Frank Tanner III wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:17 -0500, William Warren wrote:
>> yum apparently still can't cope with transparent proxies.  I tried the 
>> following and got the  yum http behind proxy error:
>>
>> Is there an ftp version of the mirrorlist or are those of us that have 
>> to use transparent proxies stuck without this new feature?
>>
>>
>>
>> [root at joshua ~]# yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror
>> Setting up Install Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.3 MB    03:07
>> dag       : ################################################## 3832/3832
>> Added 72 new packages, deleted 5 old in 9.48 seconds
>> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  75 kB    00:00
>> update    : ################################################## 185/185
>> Added 30 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.96 seconds
>> Parsing package install arguments
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>> ---> Downloading header for yum-plugin-fastestmirror to pack into 
>> transaction set.
>> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
>> http://styx.biochem.wfubmc.edu/mirror/CentOS/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
>> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
>> Trying other mirror.
>> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
>> http://centos.mirror.nac.net/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
>> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
>> Trying other mirror.
>> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
>> http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
>> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
>> Trying other mirror.
>> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
>> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
>> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
>> Trying other mirror.
>> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
>> http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
>> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
>> Trying other mirror.
>> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
>> http://yum.math.hmc.edu/os/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
>> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
>> Trying other mirror.
>> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|   43 B    00:00
>> http://mirror.trouble-free.net/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
>> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
>> Trying other mirror.
>> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
>> http://updates.interworx.info/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
>> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
>> Trying other mirror.
>> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
>> http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
>> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
>> Trying other mirror.
>> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
>> http://centos.neoservers.com/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
>> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
>> Trying other mirror.
>> Error: failure: RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm from 
>> extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>> [root at joshua ~]#
>>
> 
> I am using Yum behind a transparent Squid proxy and it works great for
> me.  I am also using DansGuardian.  One thing I *DID* have to do was to
> add an exception IP address for my CentOS box in the DansGuardian access
> lists.

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