yum has problems with proxy

[Chris Ball]

Hi,

   > On my XO, I am a heavy user of yum.  The communications setup at
   > my home goes through a proxy to reach the internet.  I have
   > empirically seen that when told to go from the XO to the net
   > through a proxy, opera' handles "https:" URLs correctly, whereas
   > 'yum' does not.

Have you tried:?

# export https_proxy=http://yourproxy:port/
# yum ...

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>