[Yum] user/passwd in ftp url supported?

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:37, Simon Kitching wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to connect to a yum repository using a url like:
>   ftp://user:passwd@host/rest-of-url
> 
> When I try this, I get:
>   Error getting file  
>    ftp://yum:yum@localhost/rh8.0-stable-i386/headers/header.info
>   [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> 
> Is it possible to use non-anonymous ftp with yum?
> [I'm running this using yum 1.0.3-1_80 on redhat 8.0]

I'm fairly certain the 1.0 tree didn't let you do ftp auth in the url -
but I could be mistaken, it's been a while since I looked.


> By the way, is it possible to run newer yum versions on RH8.0?
> The yum downloads page at  
>    http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download.ptml
> seems clear that 1.0.3 is the appropriate version for RH8, but I'm
> always hopeful :-) If so, any hints on what needs to be upgraded would
> be appreciated. Note that I'm intending to use yum to apply mandatory
> patches & updates to an RH8 server, so upgrading to RH9 is *not* an
> option...

if you update rpm to rpm 4.1.1 - available at download.fedora.us then
you can run yum 2.0.4 with red hat linux 8.0.


-sv

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