make yum.conf do a user ftp login for baseurl

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 20:41 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 15:05:45 -0500, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
> > That might work if the ftp server was a real IP on the internet but
> > addresses like ftp://... don't seem to work inside my non resolvalbe
> > lan.
> > 
> > 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.

umm urlgrabber definitely supports ftp urls.

more info on this would be appreciated in bugzilla.

-sv