yum proxy doesn't work on FC5

[Paul Howarth]

Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
>> Are the proxy environment variables also present in the environment that root gets
>> using sudo?
> 
>> sudo env | grep -i proxy
> 
> You are right, they aren't. But how is this? They are created by
> 
>     /etc/profile.d/httpproxy.sh
> 
> So I should think they are there?

Don't know; I'm not that familiar with sudo.

You might try configuring yum with the proxy information directly in 
yum.conf (see man yum.conf).

Paul.