On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 02:07 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx (seth vidal) writes: > > >> But be warned; yum's proxy support is not complete as it does not > >> support $no_proxy. Seems to be a general problem: the thing which is > >> called "webbrowser" in Gnome2 does not have this either. :( > > > > s/yum/python's/ > > > > http_proxy is not a function of yum it is done via urllib in python. > > I know; every python application will have to implement its own methods > for proxy-handling. A major flaw in the python HTTP classes. > > The missing GSSAPI/SPNEGO support is another flaw... ;) The proxy handling in yum-HEAD is much improved for setting proxy options. It is set per-repository stanza so you don't have one global, clumsy proxy variable to work with. GSSAPI/SPNEGO is a whole other level of use and I'm not sure it's worth pursuing at all. -sv
