Guys I can't help it but really! Up2date is probably the dumbest app when it come to proxy access. This program will drive me to drugs if RH don't fix it in the next release. I can't believe it's still is broken. Using the GUI if you configure the proxy it starts looking for the headers and never progresses. Run from the command line in downloads the headers, and then just before its really finished, it stops and hangs, This is what it did in redhat 9 and FC1. And the people really complained. To the extent that I bet some of us thought that apt and YUM would completely render it obsolete. Anyway I know I am out of line, no need to flame me I just thought the reawakening of this monster was a good idea, You see I want to setup my own up2date server inside my network, no proxy required. He He :}. So I wanted to see if it works first and well, that blooming proxy fault. Check this output, you can see that it does connect and get the headers, and that is really fast, 30 sec to a min. and then it hangs for over 3hrs, and never progresses, see below for why: [root@chadlap chadley]# export http_proxy=http://user:passwd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:80 [root@chadlap chadley]# up2date /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/checklist.py:21: DeprecationWarning: use gtk.TreeView gtk.CList.__init__ (self, columns+1) /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:90: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.mainloop is deprecated, use gtk.main instead self.warn(message, DeprecationWarning) http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-3 using mirror: http://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/ http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3 using mirror: http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/fedora/core/updates/3/i386/ /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:90: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.create_pixmap is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.Pixmap instead self.warn(message, DeprecationWarning) /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:90: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.mainiteration is deprecated, use gtk.main_iteration instead self.warn(message, DeprecationWarning) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 1434, in onChannelsPageNext self.pList.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 122, in run self.progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 315, in getAvailableAllArchPackageList <<SNipped>> hdr = rd.getHeader([name,ver,rel,epoch,arch, "0",channel['label']]) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoDirector.py", line 31, in getHeader return self.handlers[channel['type']].getHeader(pkg, msgCallback, progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 210, in getHeader header = source.getHeader(pkg, progressCallback = progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumRepo.py", line 87, in getHeader (fn, h) = urllib.urlretrieve(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 83, in urlretrieve return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 213, in retrieve fp = self.open(url, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 181, in open return getattr(self, name)(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 287, in open_http h = httplib.HTTP(host) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/httplib.py", line 1009, in __init__ self._setup(self._connection_class(host, port, strict)) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/httplib.py", line 507, in __init__ self._set_hostport(host, port) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/httplib.py", line 518, in _set_hostport raise InvalidURL("nonnumeric port: '%s'" % host[i+1:]) httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port: 'passwd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:80' See here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Theres why bloody thing changes it mind about how it will read the proxy env that I set. If it were a cupboard or boat or something I would burn it. The simple fact of the matter is that it is definatley still broken. And the "SOLUTIONS" presented on bugzy and google don't work either. I say to hell with it online. How do I setup my local mirror of it? Cheers Chad LOL....
