Found a bug in redhat-8.0 Python, Fixed (i think). RPMs linked.

[Ray Ferguson]

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It sure looks like I found a problem RedHat knew about, fixed in 7.3 then 
forgot about in 8.0.  I don't have an RH9 box to test on, but the problem is 
fixed in RHES3.

urllib2 (part of the python package) does not support non-annymous ftp in RH8.  
This was fixed in an update released for RH7.3 as per the change log here:

http://www2.linuxforum.net/RPM/redhat/updates/7.3/en/os/i386/python2-2.2.2-11.7.3.i386.html

However, that fix never made into RH8.  As such, specifying a url like this

ftp://user:pass@server/path

in yum.conf does not work on RH8.

I took apart the RH7.3 rpm and grabed the patch to fix nonanonftp, added it to 
thr RH8 sources, updated the spec file and built the rpms.  Yum seems to work 
peachy w/ nonanonymous ftp now.

The related RPMs will are at http://share-foo.com/rpms/ .  I've attempted to 
conform to your packaging guidlines.  Let me know if I've made mistakes.

- -ray.
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