On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 22:55 +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. > >> > ... > >> > 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 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. > > Mmmh, please do not invent yet-another method for setting up the > proxy. $*_proxy and $no_proxy environment variables are already > supported by the most applications and are handling 98% of all > practical cases. There is no way to set a proxy for multiple repositories when you have different urls in the list of baseurls. -sv
