On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:37, Simon Kitching wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to connect to a yum repository using a url like: > ftp://user:passwd@host/rest-of-url > > When I try this, I get: > Error getting file > ftp://yum:yum@localhost/rh8.0-stable-i386/headers/header.info > [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> > > Is it possible to use non-anonymous ftp with yum? > [I'm running this using yum 1.0.3-1_80 on redhat 8.0] I'm fairly certain the 1.0 tree didn't let you do ftp auth in the url - but I could be mistaken, it's been a while since I looked. > By the way, is it possible to run newer yum versions on RH8.0? > The yum downloads page at > http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download.ptml > seems clear that 1.0.3 is the appropriate version for RH8, but I'm > always hopeful :-) If so, any hints on what needs to be upgraded would > be appreciated. Note that I'm intending to use yum to apply mandatory > patches & updates to an RH8 server, so upgrading to RH9 is *not* an > option... if you update rpm to rpm 4.1.1 - available at download.fedora.us then you can run yum 2.0.4 with red hat linux 8.0. -sv -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20031023/2f360210/attachment.bin
