[wellylug] Excluding FTP from Yum?

[Jethro Carr]

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 17:28 +1200, David Harrison wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got some Centos 5.2 servers behind an FTP blocking firewall and  
> was wondering if there was a simple way to tell Yum not to use FTP  
> (i.e. only HTTP downloads)?
> 
> Googling hasn't turned up anything useful beyond turning the  
> connection timeout down, which in some cases will cause valid HTTP  
> connections to fail.

hi David,

The only method I can think of is to use the "baseurl" option and set it
to a single HTTP repo of choice, rather than using the mirrorlist
feature.

regards,
jethro

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Jethro Carr
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