On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 04:28:19PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Before calling this a bug I wondered if yum is expected to handle this > style of url. It is the kind one might use to login by ftp to an > account requiring a uid and passwd. Should this URL work for a > baseurl? > > ftp://reader:xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/home/reader/no_bak/fedraw > (passwd obfuscated for mail) Yes. This should work for both ftp and http in yum 2.1.X (possibly earlier, but I don't remember). > It doesn't work with a standard ftp client, but I think yum does'nt > rely on that. Correct. > I'm a little gun shy about calling this a yum problem. > Any one here know if the above schemes should have worked? I very much doubt that this is a problem with your username/password syntax. I've just tested that locally and it seems to work fine for me. Also, the error you're getting is about changing directory. The way ftplib does things is a bit stupid, so it might be a problem in there. Do a couple things for me. 1) test it with urlgrabber directly. Run "python" from the command line and then type in these commands: >>> from urlgrabber.grabber import URLGrabber >>> g = URLGrabber() >>> g.urlgrab('ftp://username:passowrd@xxxxxxxxxx/path/to/file') See what happens with that. I expect you to get the same exception, although probably less pretty than yum makes it. 2) Try your url with another client. I know the same syntax won't work, so remove the username:password part and just enter them the way that client expects you to. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
