[Spacewalk-list] Proxy configuration - 1.0

[Tom Brown]

On 23 Jun 2010, at 15:19, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I use the cli to add my distro's and manage my profiles and repos.
> When installing clients from the server all works fine, ie <server> >
> <client>
> The issue is though as soon as i add a proxy into the installation the
> client installation fails when trying to download packages. The
> kickstart is downloaded from the server via the proxy fine, so is the
> initrd and the stage2, anaconda starts i can see via the squid logs
> the repo's xml being downloaded and then the installation starts. Its
> at this point that the installer fails as it cane seem to download
> X.rpm where the name of the rpm could change but is often gnutls. If i
> use wget from the client from another terminal i can hit the proxy URL
> and get the rpm so i dont see why the installer is having issues
> getting the rpm. My install trees live at /trees and my repo's live at
> /yum but as i mention if i dont use a proxy then i can install fine,
> if i wget from the client to the proxy i can get the file and other
> files _apart_ from rpm's seem fine through the proxy.
> 
> Anyone have any clues here? It seemed to be OK in 0.8 but i cant be certain.
> 
> thanks

Hmm I wonder are only certain url's sent via the squid or do all requests go via there?

thanks