Help with apt and ftp

[Matthias Saou]

Maynard Kuona wrote :

> I want to use ftp instead of http for apt, using a dedicated ftp proxy.
> However, I am unable to configure it to work properly. When I use gftp
> through the proxy, it gives the following, 

Just a quick note here : The http apt URLs for ayo.freshrpms.net do not work
with the same paths through ftp. In fact, the main Red Hat Linux and Fedora
Core files aren't accessible through ftp on ayo.freshrpms.net currently
because of symlinks outside the ftp tree, which the http server follows.

Why not use a proxy for the http files? Most users who don't have access to
both http and ftp only have http and not the other way around.

Matthias

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