yum contacting www.redhat.com

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 16:45 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2005, at 09:49, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 08:57 +1000, Andrew Diamond wrote:
> >> Why does yum contact www.redhat.com each time it is run? I maintain a
> >> local yum repository so there is no requirement to access any external
> >> hosts. I also require all web traffic to go via a non-transparent 
> >> proxy
> >> and without setting the http_proxy environment variable, yum just sits
> >> there and does nothing.
> >>
> >> How do I turn this off and if anyone can explain why it would need to
> >> talk to www.redhat.com that would also be great.
> >
> > You could try running strace on yum and seeing exactly which URL it was
> > looking for, which would probably point you in the right direction.
> >
> > I trust that all references to redhat.com have been removed or 
> > commented
> > out in yum.conf and yum.repos.d/* ?
> 
> I guess yum is trying to get the GPG public key in order to check 
> signatures.
> 
Yum does not manage/check the gpg keys.  The RPM process yum runs in the
background checks the gpg key, and then it can do so only after the user
has explicitly used rpm to import the key to the local rpm system.