Answered my own question after digging into the source. yum uses urllib to handle its retrieval, thus 'standard' environment variables are supported for configuring a proxy. So to retrieve through a proxy: export http_proxy=http://proxy.address:3128 I've just tested this and it seems to work flawlessly. Cool. Yum is perfect once again. Joe Cooper wrote: > Hi folks, > > Does Yum have the ability to fetch its files through a proxy? The > manpages don't turn up anything, but I'm hoping perhaps there is an > underlying URL getting module doing the fetching which might not be > documented in the yum pages... > > Thanks! -- Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Web caching appliances and support. http://www.swelltech.com
