[Fedora-livecd-list] Livecd-tools and proxy

[Jonathan Roberts]

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 08:46 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 16:35 +0000, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > I'm not certain this is the problem I'm having but:
> > 
> > when I run livecd-tools it hangs after "setting intervals between checks
> > to 0 seconds".
> > 
> > If I wait long enough I get an error about mirrorlists and repo details
> > not being able to be retrieved, so I'm assuming my problem is with the
> > proxy server I'm behind. The details for the proxy are all set in yum,
> > but does livecd-tools not make use of this?
> 
> We don't use the yum config on the system because doing so would make it
> difficult to have as full control over what's being created as would be
> liked.  Also, it's often (?) the case that the live image you're
> creating isn't really related to what's running on the host.
> 
> The simplest way to get this to work would be to set the http_proxy
> environment variable which should then get picked up and used by yum.
> More than that is going to require adding some syntax (and thus require
> a little more thought)

No, that solution's worked brilliantly :D

Thanks for your help...

Jon
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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