[Yum] Few newbie questions

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 06:18 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote:
> Damn typos...I meant I CAN'T seem to get it to do so. Sorry folks.
> 
> On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 20:41, Sanjay Arora wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 3. Can I use the FTP protocol instead of HTTP in Yum.conf i.e. can yum
> > > > fetch via ftp instead of HTTP.
> > > 
> > > yes and yum can also use file:/// urls as well.
> > 
> > What about anonynous FTP ... can yum do the login ?...I can seem to get
> > it to do so.
> > 

ftp://username:password@hostname/path/

this has been discussed a number of times on this list, iirc.

-sv