>
> >
> > > There is this question about proxies during installation. What are
> these
> > > proxies, where are they defined and how can I define them after
> > > installtion?
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > during the installation, if you choose to configure your proxies, 2
> files
> > will be created: /etc/profile.d/proxy.{sh,csh} in order to set the
> > ftp_proxy and http_proxy variables.
> >
> > These variables will be useful for the applications that are
designed
> to
> > use them. (what a profound sentence ;)
>
> Is rpmdrake among them?
>
> [root@cooker sbin]# ftp_proxy=http://xxx:81/ http_proxy=http://xxx:81/
> rpmdrake
> 374 installed packages found!
> * gethostbyname_r(2) failed for p����
> * Closing live connection (#0)
> [root@cooker sbin]# ftp_proxy=xxx:81 http_proxy=xxx:81 rpmdrake
> 374 installed packages found!
> * gethostbyname_r(2) failed for �t����
> * Closing live connection (#0)
>
> and mirror list is not updated
>
And after I have defined proxies explicitly in rpmdrake:
[root@cooker root]# rpmdrake
374 installed packages found!
* gethostbyname_r(2) failed for Z@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Closing live connection (#0)
-andrej
