up2date hangs while fetching updates

[William Hooper]

Julien Le Houérou said:

> That was already commented.
> I launched in command-line
>
> /    yum update http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1
> /
> and i got : /
>
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info
>  Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file
> http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info
> [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):/
>
[snip]
> I also tried from a french mirror but same error.
> Would this be a proxy configuration problem?

up2date has issues with proxies
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272

Yum needs the "http_proxy" environment variable set to use a proxy.  Check
out "man yum".

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William Hooper