up2date & yum, behind corporate firewall

[Carl Gherardi]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:34 +0530, Banibrata Dutta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to use up2date & yum from behind a corporate
> firewall, except setting up an explicit HTTP tunnel (which BTW is
> banned by my co.!! so it's a strict no-no). ?
> 

If you have proxy access, export http_proxy=http://proxybox:port/

Cant comment on up2date, i'd assume it used gnome/kde prefs though.

Carl

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