make yum.conf do a user ftp login for baseurl

[Jeff Spaleta]

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.

-jef