yum proxy doesn't work on FC5

[Paul Howarth]

Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it seems that yum ignores proxy settings on FC5:
> 
>     [jwi at stujwi ~]$ set | grep proxy
>     http_proxy=http://httpprox.software-ag.de:8080/
>     https_proxy=http://sslprox.software-ag.de:443/
> 
> As you can see, the proxy settings are there.
> 
>     [jwi at stujwi ~]$ wget http://fedora.redhat.com/
>     --10:56:55--  http://fedora.redhat.com/
>                => `index.html'
>     Resolving httpprox.software-ag.de... 10.20.40.6, 10.20.40.5
>     Connecting to httpprox.software-ag.de|10.20.40.6|:8080... connected.
>     Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>     Length: 5,074 (5.0K) [text/html]
>     10:56:55 (200.76 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [5074/5074]
> 
> As you can see, they are also working. But yum ignores them. As
> tcpdump shows me, it attempts to contact HTTP servers directly. Is
> this a known problem and what can I do?
> 
> 
> Jochen
> 
>     [jwi at stujwi ~]$ sudo yum update
>     Password:
>     Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>     Running "config" handler for "installonlyn" plugin
>     Yum Version: 2.6.0
>     COMMAND: yum
>     Installroot: /
>     Setting up Update Process
>     Setting up repositories
>     core                                                                 [1/3]
>     Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
>     Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core

Are the proxy environment variables also present in the environment that 
root gets using sudo?

sudo env | grep -i proxy

Paul.