[et-mgmt-tools] cobbler reposync proxy issues

[Michael DeHaan]

Mathieu Sauve-Frankel wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> I'm currently using cobbler 0.8.2 from EPEL on RHEL5-x86_64. 
> It seems cobbler reposync does not respect proxy entries 
> in /etc/yum.conf. Is this expected ? 
>
> I've temporarily worked around this by adding a file that sets 
> the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables system-wide 
> in /etc/profile.d/
>
>   
Cobbler reposync uses either yum's reposync (http/ftp) or rsync 
(rsync://, ssh) to do mirroring. Either way, those calls /are/ passed
through the shell, so environment variables are passed along -- so your 
solution is fine.

If you think yum's reposync is not reading import settings in 
/etc/yum.conf, that bug needs to be opened against yum-utils.

--Michael