make yum.conf do a user ftp login for baseurl

[Harry Putnam]

Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com> writes:

> On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> How can I get yum to do a user type ftp login for the baseurl? 
>> It will need username and password at some point.

Tom wrote:
> How about something like this: ftp://username:your_passwd@ftp.yoursite.com/$releasever

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?