[Yum] local file update

[Steve.Lawrence at factiva.com (Lawrence, Steve)]

>Could anyone tell me either howto set up yum to run through a proxy or
update from a local directory?

>From 'man yum'

MISC
       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/";


ie: set http_proxy="http://myproxy:8080/";

S.