On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 13:54, Chris Ricker wrote: > Currently yum uses the http_proxy variable to determine which web proxy to > use. In my environment, we have the following scenario > > * Fedora from local mirror > * Custom packages from local server > > That works fine. We don't require a proxy for local access (and in fact > don't permit the proxy to access local sites). > > Now, some users want to also add add-ons (fedora.us, livna, etc.) from > servers across Internet. The problem is that we require a web proxy to > access off-site web servers. > > AFAICT, yum has no way to deal with this arrangement where a web proxy is > needed for some sites, but not for others. Would it be useful for anyone > else to allow the http_proxy configuration in yum.conf on a site-by-site > basis? Shouldn't your proxy deal with that? ie: the proxy should know that certain sites are local and others aren't and pass you through to the local ones normally. I can't think of any program that copes with some proxy and some non-proxy connections. -sv
