On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 10:20, Stephen More wrote: > According to the man page for yum there is some proxy support: > > Proxy configuration > If you would like to use a proxy with yum you can simply set a > shell environment variable of http_proxy. Set it to the url for > your proxy. Ex: "http://your_proxy:port/"; > > My proxy requires a username and a password. Will yum work with my proxy or will there need to be > some sort of coding required to update yum ? > > Unless your proxy configuration is very odd you should be able to use: http://username:password@your_proxy:port/ in the http_proxy variable. try it. see if it works, let me know. i don't have a proxy I can really test against so.. -sv
