Livecd-tools and proxy

[Jonathan Roberts]

Hey,

I'm not certain this is the problem I'm having but:

when I run livecd-tools it hangs after "setting intervals between checks
to 0 seconds".

If I wait long enough I get an error about mirrorlists and repo details
not being able to be retrieved, so I'm assuming my problem is with the
proxy server I'm behind. The details for the proxy are all set in yum,
but does livecd-tools not make use of this?

Can anybody help me out a bit with this?

Thanks in advance :D

Jon

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 16:35 +0000, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> I'm not certain this is the problem I'm having but:
>
> when I run livecd-tools it hangs after "setting intervals between checks
> to 0 seconds".
>
> If I wait long enough I get an error about mirrorlists and repo details
> not being able to be retrieved, so I'm assuming my problem is with the
> proxy server I'm behind. The details for the proxy are all set in yum,
> but does livecd-tools not make use of this?

We don't use the yum config on the system because doing so would make it
difficult to have as full control over what's being created as would be
liked.  Also, it's often (?) the case that the live image you're
creating isn't really related to what's running on the host.

The simplest way to get this to work would be to set the http_proxy
environment variable which should then get picked up and used by yum.
More than that is going to require adding some syntax (and thus require
a little more thought)

Jeremy

[Jonathan Roberts]

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 08:46 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 16:35 +0000, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > I'm not certain this is the problem I'm having but:
> >
> > when I run livecd-tools it hangs after "setting intervals between checks
> > to 0 seconds".
> >
> > If I wait long enough I get an error about mirrorlists and repo details
> > not being able to be retrieved, so I'm assuming my problem is with the
> > proxy server I'm behind. The details for the proxy are all set in yum,
> > but does livecd-tools not make use of this?
>
> We don't use the yum config on the system because doing so would make it
> difficult to have as full control over what's being created as would be
> liked.  Also, it's often (?) the case that the live image you're
> creating isn't really related to what's running on the host.
>
> The simplest way to get this to work would be to set the http_proxy
> environment variable which should then get picked up and used by yum.
> More than that is going to require adding some syntax (and thus require
> a little more thought)

No, that solution's worked brilliantly :D

Thanks for your help...

Jon
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[Douglas McClendon]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> The simplest way to get this to work would be to set the http_proxy
> environment variable which should then get picked up and used by yum.
> More than that is going to require adding some syntax (and thus require
> a little more thought)

Is there any way to set http_proxy like this in a traditional anaconda 
install?  I.e. doing something in %pre ?

-dmc

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:23 -0600, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > The simplest way to get this to work would be to set the http_proxy
> > environment variable which should then get picked up and used by yum.
> > More than that is going to require adding some syntax (and thus require
> > a little more thought)
>
> Is there any way to set http_proxy like this in a traditional anaconda 
> install?  I.e. doing something in %pre ?

Not at present... it's one of the things that will hopefully be enabled
in Fedora 9.  See
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/SecondStageInstallSource

Jeremy