On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 03:22 PM, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:59:32PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: >> On Mon, 31 May 2004, Nathanael Noblet wrote: >>> On Monday, May 31, 2004, at 01:57 PM, Tom Diehl wrote: >>>> I am trying to get yum to use an ftp based repository that is not >>>> publicly >>>> accessible. As a result I need to pass a username and passwd to the >>>> ftp >>>> server. Does anyone know how to get yum to do this? There does not >>>> seem to be >>>> anything in the docs about this. >>> >>> This is a guess & assumption, yum uses a 3rd party software package >>> to >>> talk http/ftp I would guess you can do >>> ftp://username:password@site/path > > I'm not sure if I'd call it "3rd party" :) Basically, urlgrabber > (which came into existence as part of yum) is a layer over urllib2. > urllib2 is one of the standard python modules. Oh my bad, I didn't know they had gone above and beyond the python modules. Which is why I said 3rd party... meaning not part of yum, but actually part of the language ( or a module included with it etc).. -- Nathanael D. Noblet Gnat Solutions 412 - 135 Gorge Road E Victoria, BC V9A 1L1 T/F 250.385.4613 http://www.gnat.ca/
