[Yum] ftp repo login/logout

[Paul Pianta]

hi people

I am using yum to access a custom ftp repo that I access using proftp on 
port 2121. Access is authenticated but I just use a line in yum .conf 
like this ...

[ftp repo]
name=My ftp repo
baseurl=ftp://username:passwd@myrepo.com:2121

I ran a 'tail -f /var/log/messages' on the server while running a yum 
update on one of the clients. Everything goes well but rather slowly. 
The tail shows me that the ftp client is logging in - downloading 
something (ie. header or package) then logging out, then it does this 
all again for the next header/package. All of this logging in and out 
obviously slows down the whole business.

I am wondering if this is a natural yum behaviour or it is due to my ftp 
client and authentication stuff.

Any ideas?

thanks

pantz

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