yum thru proxy

a1ex_007 · 06-21-2005, 01:42 AM

I am using Fedora core 3. I m connected to the internet through a squid proxy server which uses HTTP authentication. i want up2date to work throught the proxy. I configured the proxy settings on up2date but couldnt get to download the udates from the redhat update server
It shows how many updates are availasble but as i click the link to get the list of updates, it never goes ahead ............

climbingmerlin · 06-21-2005, 06:03 AM

I never really use up2date on the gui, I like the good old comand line. Try this to update your system.

1. Open a terminal window
2. Add the proxy to your session variable e.g.

Code:

export http_proxy="http://proxyserver:proxyport"

3. type either yum update or yum -y update

The last command the -y argument means to say yes to all prompts, and will upgrade all the packages that require upgrading.

This should work, let me know if you have any problems.

regards,
climbingmerlin

a1ex_007 · 06-22-2005, 12:02 AM

I tried with ur advice but the proxy i use has user authentication. I wud like to know a way to specify the user and password for the proxy.

climbingmerlin · 06-27-2005, 01:02 PM

humm... I am not sure, as far as I know it should prompt you for the user name and password, and then carry on with giving you access.

I'll have to look in to this, and try it myself.

Grant

Y2J · 06-28-2005, 07:11 AM

Heeeeeeeeeeey .. mine working like hell here
yeaah , at last yum want to update the repos
hehe , i was staying all the yesterday night in this YUM without figuring out the proxy will not here !!

Code:

[root@Y2J ~]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
atrpms                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  147 B    00:00
Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.01 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  39 kB    00:01
freshrpms : ################################################## 117/117
Added 117 new packages, deleted 0 old in 1.91 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  48 kB    00:01
atrpms    : ################################################## 218/218
Added 218 new packages, deleted 0 old in 2.40 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  81 kB    00:02
updates-re: ################################################## 214/214
Added 214 new packages, deleted 0 old in 4.90 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 824 kB    00:30
base      : ################################################## 2772/2772
Added 2772 new packages, deleted 0 old in 38.38 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 409 kB    00:16
....

what's next yum gonna do then ?

jcliburn · 06-29-2005, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by a1ex_007
I tried with ur advice but the proxy i use has user authentication. I wud like to know a way to specify the user and password for the proxy.

man yum.conf

Edit /etc/yum.conf and add:

proxy=http://<your_proxy_url>:<port>
proxy_username=<username>
proxy_password=<password>

You might also need to add:

timeout=300

Y2J · 06-29-2005, 10:08 AM

[root@Y2J ~]# http_proxy="http://192.168.0.2:80"
[root@Y2J ~]# yum check-update
Setting up repositories
http://apt.sw.be/fedora/4/en/i386/da...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dag
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dag: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

it did it again

even i un-comment this line , no respone :
#export http_proxy="http://192.168.0.2:80"

jcliburn · 06-29-2005, 10:30 AM

It's not clear to me from your response that you actually edited /etc/yum.conf, only that you declared and exported an environment variable called http_proxy.