make yum.conf do a user ftp login for baseurl

[david walcroft]

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?
> 
> 
This is what I use in yum.conf and works every time.

[updates-ftp]
name=Fedora 2 planetmirror ftp Updates
baseurl=ftp://user:passwd@premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/2/i386

   david