make yum.conf do a user ftp login for baseurl

[Harry Putnam]

Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> writes:

>> ftp will find reader.local.net0 but not ftp://reader.local.net0
>> 
>> I wonder if there is a way to work a HERE document or something into
>> the syntax?
>
> Sounds like a limitation on urlgrabber that yum uses.  This probably
> needs to be filed as a bug so that it can be fixed so lookups from the
> hosts file behave correctly.

Not sure I follow your reasoning here unless you are saying that yum
should be able to handle ftp, ssh, smb etc connections that are not
resolvable by dns.

It is really ftp that is not working in the scheme I laid out.

However it would be nice if there was provision in yum to pass a
uid/passwd when connecting by ftp or ssh.  Is that what you mean or
would that be a request for enhancement or something?

Anyway I found my solution by finally realizing I could use the http
protocol and do it thru apache instead of ftp.... (A little slow here...)