Uniform Proxy Settings
Tim Lauridsen
tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 3 05:26:31 UTC 2008
Kulbir Saini wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Whenever I try a new version of Fedora, the first problem I face is
> setting the proxy. It seems for almost every application, I have to
> specify proxy at a different place. We have this "System ->
> Preferences -> Internet and Network -> Network Proxy" app to specify
> proxy settings. But I wonder if there is some application which obeys
> these settings.
>
> Examples:
>
> 1. Yum (3.2.19-3.fc10) won't fetch proxy settings from above
> specified location. It has to be set via proxy option in yum.conf or
> http_proxy/ftp_proxy env variable.
The problem is that the above is Gnome thing, so it make sense for gnome
apps to use it, but yum a low level app there should work on all
systems, also sytems with no GUI.
Tim
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