up2date crash error -2

[Marc Siegel]

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
> 
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