what's so non-hands-off (or hands-on) about yum? yum upgrade or yum -y upgrade -d Marc Siegel said: > Hi Duncan, > I want up2date to work mostly so I can have a mostly hands-off approach > to keeping my system up to date ... or up2date as the branding implies > ;) > > So yeah using wget was a good call - apparently some machinery here > works with HTTP_PROXY and some with http_proxy, which was news to me. > Setting them both up with a simplified hostname to the proxy seems to be > working, I am going to but those declarations in /etc/profile and see > if everything starts to work. > > Marc > > duncan brown wrote: >> Marc Siegel said: >> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os//headers/header.info... >> >>>There was some sort of I/O error: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service >>> not known')> >> >> >> can you use wget to download something after exporting $http_proxy? >> >> also, why not use yum? it always worked with me when i used >> $http_proxy >> >> -d >> >> -+(duncan brown >> -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net >> >> () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail >> /\ - against microsoft attachments >> >> Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving >> wordy evidence of the fact. >> -- George Eliot >> >> >> > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot
