Hi people,
I am trying to use yum with Fedora Core 1 and I am behind FTP and HTTP
proxies and a firewall.
I note the final entry in the man page:
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/";
This variable has been set by adding a line to .bashrc as follows:
export http_proxy=http://[actual http proxy url removed from here]:80
and have confirmed that this variable is set after logging in as root.
I have also tried setting this variable to point to the FTP proxy.
I am trying to use yum with local (Australian) FTP servers and have
confirmed that I have access to these servers.
My best guess is that yum is trying to open FTP ports on the HTTP proxy,
but I cannot access this device to confirm...
Can anyone offer any further assistance?
Copy of yum error follows:
[root@localhost root]# yum check-update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Linux Core 1 (i386) Netcraft
retrygrab() failed for:
ftp://ftp.netcraft.com.au/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header
.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file
ftp://ftp.netcraft.com.au/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header
.info
[Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] (110, 'Connection timed out')
[root@localhost root]#
