Feature request Description of problem: yum supports http proxies but apparently not socks Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.8-2.fc8 Additional info: Sometimes I am in a location where I cannot access the internet directly, but still have access to ssh to a machine with a direct connection. In such a situation I can use the -D option for ssh to get a socks proxy that will allow me to access webpages. But installing updates using yum is not possible because it only supports http proxies not socks, and the ssh client only implements an socks proxy not http.
YUMBUGDAY - anyone have any ideas how to do this?
okay, so after talking about this a bit. I think it is going to be closed wontfix. No one here has a socks proxy and debugging this w/o one will be non-trivial. If you would like to submit a patch to add socks proxy support I'm sure it would be considered.