yum repos configured to use only ftp mirrors

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 04:01:21PM +0100, Felix Obenhuber wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> due our proxy fails on most http requests bigger than a couple of megs
> I'd like to configure yum in that way, that it ONLY uses ftp mirrors.
> Ftp request pass the proxy without any issues.
> I didn't find something like useonlyftp=1 in yum.conf so i intended to
> ask here.

Yes. 

* Find an FTP mirror near you at
  http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html. Then use that URL in
  your /etc/yum.repos.d files as appropriate. E.g: "ftp://..."

* Try setting up a local
  repo. http://www.charlescurley.com/yum.html. It uses rsync to keep
  up to date, so check to see if your proxy and/or firewall will pass
  rsync.

* Get a civilized proxy server (SQUID?).


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