[Pulp-list] PULP - newby question.... pulp behind a proxy

[John Matthews]

----- Original Message -----
> Hello Mike,
> 
> thanks a lot for your answer! Maybe I was not exact enough....
> Here my pulp-server is behind a proxy. I've created a repo (feed: yum)
> but cannot sync it:
> 
> Id f14-x86_64
> Name f14-x86_64
> FeedURL
> http://mirror.uoregon.edu/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/os
> FeedType yum
> Arch noarch
> Sync Schedule None
> Packages 0
> Files 0
> Distributions None
> Publish True
> Clones []
> Groups None
> 
> and sync gives:
> 
> pulp-admin repo sync --id f14-x86_64 -F
> Sync for repository f14-x86_64 started
> You can safely CTRL+C this current command and it will continue
> [ ] 0%
> Sync: Error
> RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: . Please verify its path and try again
> 
> tracing the network shows that it never tries any connection to our
> proxy...
> 
> christian
> 
> 

The piece that does the downloading of packages in pulp is called grinder.  It can work with a proxy, but I don't think pulp currently allows specification of proxy info, nor does it pass any extra proxy info to grinder.

I'll file a bug for this.