On 18 May 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > Stated, differently, to add Yet Another Place (/etc/yum.conf) > > with cleartext passwords is sub-optimal. To use .netrc alone, > > and to reference the decision in the yum.conf or yum man page > > is a win. > > slight problem. > 1. we'd have to add support for a new file format parsing mechanism > 2. it's a file that is ONLY ever used by bsd ftp hmmm -- perl's Net::FTP and autorpm come to mind as two which I know also use it and which I use. > 3. it's an arcane file at best. heh -- recall that we _are_in the realm of RPM here. While I love it dearly, it _does_ use the dbX for database, rather than nice easy flat and 'editable by pipeline tools' text files. So painfully contrary to the 'Unix(^tm) Way' ... > I'd rather keep the amount of code in yum that only does one thing to a > minimum. When that thing is external to the process of yum it gets even > less interesting to write/maintain. > > I'm gonna say nix on this one. I don't see .netrc as a gain and it's an > option that would confuse folks, I think. <smile> -- Ville came to my rescue, while I was out ... I'll investigate, test and stabilize a patch for a while. -- Russ Herrold