[Yum] Patch for yum.conf.5 from CVS.
Sean Reifschneider
jafo at tummy.com
Wed Feb 8 06:34:57 UTC 2006
A patch which adds a description of using HTTP basic auth with the baseurl.
Sean
Index: ./docs/yum.conf.5
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RCS file: /cvsroot/yum/cvs/yum/docs/yum.conf.5,v
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -u -r1.38 yum.conf.5
--- ./docs/yum.conf.5 3 Dec 2005 07:15:10 -0000 1.38
+++ ./docs/yum.conf.5 8 Feb 2006 05:29:33 -0000
@@ -253,6 +253,10 @@
If you list more than one baseurl= statement in a repository you will find
yum will ignore the earlier ones and probably act bizarrely. Don't do this,
you've been warned.
+.br
+You can use HTTP basic auth by prepending "user:password@" to the server
+name in the baseurl line. For example:
+"baseurl=http://user:passwd@example.com/".
.IP \fBmirrorlist\fR
Specifies a URL to a file containing a list of baseurls. This can be used
--
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