[Yum] Proxy settings are ignored

[jochen.wiedmann at gmail.com (Jochen Wiedmann)]

Hi,

I am using yum 2.6.0 on a Fedora Core 5 system. As you can see, my
proxy settings are there:

    [jwi@stujwi ~]$ set | grep proxy
    http_proxy=http://httpprox.software-ag.de:8080/
    https_proxy=http://sslprox.software-ag.de:443/

They also seem to be right:

    [jwi@stujwi ~]$ wget http://fedora.redhat.com/
    --10:56:55--  http://fedora.redhat.com/
               => `index.html'
    Resolving httpprox.software-ag.de... 10.20.40.6, 10.20.40.5
    ... (works fine)

But yum doesn't work:

    [jwi@stujwi ~]$ sudo yum update
    Password:
    Loading "installonlyn" plugin
    Running "config" handler for "installonlyn" plugin
    Yum Version: 2.6.0
    COMMAND: yum
    Installroot: /
    Setting up Update Process
    Setting up repositories
    core                                                                 [1/3]
    Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
    Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core

tcpdump shows, that the proxy is not being used, but an attempt to
contact the HTTP server directly is made.


Any ideas?


Regards,

Jochen





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