Packages have "proxy" word.

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Nov 1 12:09:03 UTC 2013


On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 02:07:22AM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:08:33AM +0200, مصعب الزعبي wrote:
> > بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The result of updating Fedora by yum is fail !!
> > 
> > When any package have "proxy" word marked to (install or update) , error message will appear with http 403 error forbidden.
> > 
> > In my country Syria (maybe others) all URLs have "proxy" word are forbidden and couldn't open by default way.
> 
> I think you'll have to use a... proxy to work around this problem.
> Or maybe it'll be enough to use a https connection to the mirror.

NB, US export restrictions that Fedora is subject to mean users
from Syria should not be downloading Fedora at all[1], via a proxy
or not.

Regards,
Daniel

[1] See "Export restrictions" footer on https://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
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