Fedora :: F11 Yum Proxy Changes From Http_proxy To Https_proxy?

At work I used to use "export http_proxy=http://xxx:8080" in F10 to instruct yum to use said http proxy. This no longer works with F11; yum would hang like this in F11, with http_proxy set: [root@taiwan timliim]# yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit The reason being that in F10 yum uses http to get mirror list, but in F11 it uses https. In F11 one can use export https_proxy=http://xxx:8080 or edit /etc/yum.conf to add proxy=http://xxx:8080 This knowledge is in other postings too, but their subject lines are less than obvious to me, so I am reposting a summarized version here.