Yumex proxy problem

[J. K. Cliburn]

On 4/2/06, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
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> I just upgraded my classroom lab to FC5 from FC3 with a clean install. The
> system is behind another Fedora system with a squid proxy server. After
> setting up the network proxy with the ipaddress:3128, I found that yumex
> would come up with the proxy, but would then fail. After doing some trial and
> error, I found that if I changed the yumex proxy setting to include
> http://ipaddress:3128, then it would work.. Not sure why this occurs?

Have you added the proxy line to /etc/yum.conf?

proxy=http://proxy_ipaddr:3128