On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 19:25 +0200, Alan Robert Clark wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > > > > > and if you replace urlgrabber in the above command with 'wget' > > > > what happens? > > My apologies. > > I should have mentioned that wget/firefox/ping etc all work flawlessly. > I get the mirrorlist etc. Commenting out the mirror line in the repos.d, > and reverting to the olde style baseurl instead does nothing. Yumex uses > **THESE SAME** files!!! Oh, its marvellous!!!!!! > > As I said I can happily add freshrpms/livna etc and yumex has performed > beautifully, despite needing the occasional kill -9 to catch a hang :-). > But it does work getting things! > > Again, I believe the significance of my particular problem is the total > lack of traffic (DNS or otherwise) on my interfaces....??? > > Thank you again for your reply. As I said, allergic as I am to all > things pointy-clicky, I am relieved that something works! Why yumex > works in the same environment that yum coughs, I have (as of yet) no > idea (and I have spent a minute or two on the problem :-) :-) :-). > which is why I asked if there was a proxy definition involved somewhere b/c it might be being picked up by those other applications (and maybe by yumex) but not by yum. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
