yum contacting www.redhat.com
Felipe Alfaro Solana
lkml at mac.com
Mon Mar 21 15:45:05 UTC 2005
On 21 Mar 2005, at 09:49, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 08:57 +1000, Andrew Diamond wrote:
>> Why does yum contact www.redhat.com each time it is run? I maintain a
>> local yum repository so there is no requirement to access any external
>> hosts. I also require all web traffic to go via a non-transparent
>> proxy
>> and without setting the http_proxy environment variable, yum just sits
>> there and does nothing.
>>
>> How do I turn this off and if anyone can explain why it would need to
>> talk to www.redhat.com that would also be great.
>
> You could try running strace on yum and seeing exactly which URL it was
> looking for, which would probably point you in the right direction.
>
> I trust that all references to redhat.com have been removed or
> commented
> out in yum.conf and yum.repos.d/* ?
I guess yum is trying to get the GPG public key in order to check
signatures.
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