My Fedora FCr3 box is on a private network. So it has no
direct access to the Internet. Up2date supports Proxy
settings. But up2date now just front ends for YUM or APT.
RedHat seems to prefer YUM. That's ok with me but I can't
figure out how to configure YUM to work through a Proxy. I
keep getting timeouts and "server not found" messages. I
can't see any YUM settings to support a Proxy. I have put
the Proxy settings into "up2date --config". No joy. It
looks like APT supports Proxy servers but that Fedora FCr3
does not yet support APT. There is a package to download and
install (apt-0.5.15cnc6-12.r362.i386.rpm). So I downloaded
and installed it. But there is no "mirrors" list. Can
someone put me on the right track here?
I used yum directly to go through a proxy. I had to do something like this:
http_proxy=http://<proxy>:####/
HTTP_PROXY="$http_proxy"
export http_proxy HTTP_PROXY
ftp_proxy=http://<proxy>:####/
FTP_PROXY="$ftp_proxy"
export ftp_proxy FTP_PROXY
where <proxy> is the name of your proxy server and #### is the port.
Also, take a look at /etc/yum.conf and the repository files in
/etc/yum.repos.d/
Jeff