[Yum] any way to force yum 1.0.3 to use passive mode with ftp respositories?

[Alastair Neil]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 11:31, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hi
> It's not quite true that passive mode won't work.  I'm quite certain that the 
> fix isn't going to get into the official yum distro because it means messing 
> with your basic python libraries, but there is a fix.
> 
> Here is what we do.
> Copy your /usr/lib/python1.5/ftplib.py to /usr/share/yum/ftplib.py
> 
> Then edit /usr/share/yum/ftplib.py
> and change the line
>       self.passiveserver = 0
> to
>       self.passiveserver = 1
> 
> This will cause yum 1.0.x to work in passive mode.
> 
> Troy
> 
Hey thanks a bunch that works great. it is only an issue with one
machine because the others are not behind the firewall. Thanks again.



> nathan r. hruby wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Alastair Neil wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hi 
> >>
> >>I am new to the list and I'm having a problem with 7.3 clients. I have
> >>set up a yum repository to patch a number of RH 7.x vintage and RH 9
> >>boxes.  The repository itself is a RH9 box running only vsftpd.  The RH9
> >>clients work fine, 7.3 clients,however, are timing out when issuing a
> >>nslt command for the header.info file.  The problem seems to be that the
> >>1.0.3 yum client doesn't use passive mode.  I can grab the files by hand
> >>using ftp, but see the same timeout if I turn off passive mode.  The
> >>repository box and the clients are on either sides of a firewall.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Passive mode doesn't work in yum-1.0x and probably never will.  Either make 
> > the firewall deal with active or upgrade the 7.2 boxes to yum-2.x using 
> > the freshrpms.net yum builds (which also includes upgrading rpm on these 
> > machines as well)
> > 
> > -n
> > 
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Dr. Alastair Neil
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