CentOS - Feb 2006 - Http proxy set in yum.conf is not working for the new yum mirrorlist system

Hi,

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?

Regards,

Radu

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:37 +0200, Radu Radutiu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Radu
> 
Try it with the 4-4.5 as it uses port 80 instead of port 81 ... which
might make it better.

To be honest, I don't know if the mirrorlist selects will use the proxy
settings of yum or not.
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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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