--=-IgqcF1rVWlO+mpxzYt37 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 08:37, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 02:35:05PM +1000, Dan Goodes wrote: > > Hi folks, > >=20 > > I just tried using Yum (okay, it's the default package manager that the= =20 > > Fedora crowd have available for RH 9.0.93 / SEVERN), but I ran into a=20 > > problem. I'd like to know if it's possible to use username/password=20 > > authentication with yum repositories. E.g. I tried using both=20 > >=20 > > http://username:password@host/path/to/yum/ > >=20 > > and=20 > >=20 > > ftp://username:password@host/path/to/yum/ > >=20 > > and both times yum spat the dummy and complained about a bad format. Is= it=20 > > possible to set this up? If not, do you think it's likely to be put int= o=20 > > some future release? >=20 > Yes. This has been on my list of things to do for a long time. I am > hereby committing to work on it this weekend. If I don't, you may all > harass me mercilessly (except for Seth, who appears to need no such > permission). I'll put in a "+1" for this feature to be added, hopefully following the above format (which matches what apt uses). I can't deploy yum widely until it supports authentication. --Jeremy --=20 /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer jeremyp@xxxxxxxxx trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ --=-IgqcF1rVWlO+mpxzYt37 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/ITnHb5/3vMwae5IRArK8AKDfhffDYZgOrNus8Re42EUIYZUyrgCfSu+E gHDLMwS1hlGYfAxRl8DQ1Dk= =202r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-IgqcF1rVWlO+mpxzYt37--
