apt on FC4

[Paul Howarth]

Andy Green wrote:
> Deboo ^ wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>    http_proxy=http://user:passwd@proxy.foo.com:portnumber
>>    export http_proxy
> 
> 
>>That won't work either.
> 
> 
> "Won't work" is not very informative.  What exactly happens when you set
> it and export it as shown, then run, eg,
> 
> yum update
> 
> 
>>Look for a thread from me on thsi issue on
>>console. Seems no solution to this.
> 
> 
> I looked at that thread and learned nothing about your yum and proxy
> struggle.

I wonder if the issue described at 
https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=441 is still 
present? Looking at /usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py, the code looks the 
same to me.

Paul.