seth vidal [mailto:skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]wrote: >Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:37 PM >To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified >Subject: RE: [Yum] Yum and proxy > >On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 16:25 +0100, mbylander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >> Well, I have $http_proxy and $HTTP_PROXY defined (as well as $ftp_proxy and $FTP_PROXY), and still no luck... I'm wondering if Python is getting confused by the backlash in my "username", which according to M$ conventions is >DOMAIN\USERNAME... >> > >python's not - but your shell most likely is. > >why not define the http_proxy stuff inside your yum.conf, rather than in >the shell? It's set in both the shell and in yum.conf. wget works fine using the shell variables, so it is presumably correct there (I had to quote the backslash, obviously.) Mark
